Is Marco Rubio Right?

I watched Rubio on Meet The Press when he spoke about the student protester who has been detained. I found myself agreeing with some of the things he was saying. To be clear, I am not a liberal and I not a conservative. I am one of the those who would like to get along with everyone.

But today? It doesn't seem possible. Everyone is camped on extremes. However I watched his explanation on the detention of the student, and I found myself agreeing with him on some issues. Of course this goes with what I know of the circumstances. 

This also had me reflecting on some other things the Republican Party is doing and it made me even angrier with the Democratic Party for allowing this to happen. I came to the conclusion that Joe Biden was nothing more than a place mat and Kamala Harris paid for it.

Khalil became a symbol for what the left thinks the Republican Party is doing wrong about immigration and deportation. The fact is, this student brought this attention on himself and he knew it at the time. He made this fact known to the school administration.

What did he do? He became a leader in campus protests and engaged in representing Pro Palestinian demonstrators in their negotiations with the administration officials of Columbia University. This, after they illegally occupied a building on the campus resulting their expulsion or suspension. I emphasize illegal because the police were called to arrest them.

Mahmoud Khalil was a green card holder, which gave him many rights and certainly many privileges, but he was not a citizen. Yet.

Whatever his reason was for coming to United States, he either forgot it or lied about it. There are many on the southern border who would love to have that green card just to get a job working anywhere in America. As difficult as it is to get into this country, he forgot about his responsibilities. His family. He could have continued what he was doing and followed the rules and laws. He thought, perhaps, a green card gave him the same rights as an American citizen. Yes and No. The government can examine your activities more closely and yes you can be deported.

My question is this. Why did you come here to begin with? What were your priorities? Did you come here to have a better life, a better education, more opportunities? Or did you come here to be a political activist and catalyst for world order change? If you came for the latter, you made a very bad mistake. You were on third base in the line for opportunity in America. The next and last step was citizenship. All you had to do was obey the laws everyone else follows every day.

If a U.S. citizen goes to another country and disregards their laws and customs, what do you think happens? Serious? You can read about it any day and every day, where people from this country find themselves over their head in trouble with the laws of other countries.

Do I feel bad for his family? Of course. This will be a terrible thing for them. He did not become a “political prisoner” as he calls it until he became an activist with political views that some people in power do not agree with. If he is so smart, he should recall where he was born and how his life was in that country before his family had the fortune to make it to this country.

Now they will make him an example at what cost? They will use this as an example to others that are here trying to pursue citizenship. The word is, keep your head down, your mouth shut and obey the rules. The Trump administration is on a house cleaning mission. The voters asked for it and he is giving it to them. Some bad some good. Some I agree with. Some I do not.

In this particular case, all he had to do was go home to his family after school, have dinner, watch jeopardy, study and go to bed, and he would still be doing that.

Jack Wilson

Opinion