The Issue: Columbia University anti-Israel activist leader Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest and detention by ICE.
It is a great privilege to be granted a visa to enter America and to be issued a green card (“ICE arrests activist leader at Columbia,” March 10).
Radical pro-Hamas student agitators and disrupters abuse this privilege.
I am pleased that Mahmoud Khalil, a foreign agitator at Columbia University, might have his visa revoked and his green card canceled.
Khalil and his fellow foreign radicals being booted out of America can’t come soon enough.
Robert Semel
Brooklyn
Coming to America is not a right, but a privilege.
Those who come here and support terrorists, break laws, promote religious bigotry, violate the rights of American citizens and harass Americans need to be arrested and deported.
When you violate our freedom, you forfeit your privilege.
Joe Zeloof
Hamilton, NJ
ICE arrested a radical Columbia University graduate who was the leader of protesters on the campus because he aligned himself with terrorist organizations.
Freedom of speech is given only up to a point when it becomes criminal: taking over buildings, assaulting workers, spreading hate speech, not allowing students to classes or campus.
Now his lawyer is crying foul.
This protest leader has a green card, so he wonders why he was arrested.
It’s about time the government took control of a situation that violates civil rights.
Meanwhile, Columbia University doesn’t want to cooperate with ICE.
The school should be penalized further if it doesn’t cooperate and give up other lawbreakers in the future.
Joseph Comperchio
Brooklyn
I can only imagine what my parents, Holocaust survivors, would feel viewing the Jewish hatred at colleges and universities today.
They survived only to have their great-grandchildren living in fear — not just from fellow students, but from faculty and administrators as well.
Antisemitism is alive and well in New York.
One can only hope that President Trump’s administration follows through with these consequences for protestors like Mahmoud Khalil.
JJ Levine
Miami Beach, Fla.
The Issue: Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo says he’ll hire 5,000 more cops if elected.
Andrew Cuomo can add as many police as he wants to the force, but it still won’t help (“Cuomo aims to add 5K cops,” March 9).
You would have to put in place a new slate of judges, district attorneys, prosecutors and more.
That’s where our city is failing our people.
The sad part is that crime victims aren’t getting the justice they deserve.
Does it have to happen to one of these officials or their loved ones for them to get these perps off the street?
Mo Colarusso
Manhattan
Let’s not forget who was the initial leader behind defunding the police.
Or who instituted and preached about no-bail laws, which put criminals back on the street in a revolving-door justice system.
Once again, we have a politician who wants to solve the problems that he created and wants the public to forget the role he played in creating them.
John Cornicello
Lynbrook
Mayoral candidate Andrew Cuomo plans to hire up to 5,000 more police if elected.
Who in this crime-ridden city could oppose that?
Oh, yes — the “defund the police” City Council of lefty progressives.
Cuomo has his faults, as do other candidates.
But our cops have dwindled due to retirements, transfers and outright quitting.
A refill is needed.
Joseph Valente
Staten Island
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