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Eugene Volokh

May Aliens Be Deported for Praising Assassination of American Political Advocates?

Axios (Rebecca Falconer) reports:

Fox News' Gillian Turner noted during her interview with [Secretary of State Marco] Rubio that Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau had been "calling out on social media foreigners who he says are celebrating, glorifying" the fatal shooting of Kirk in Utah last Wednesday.

  • Landau had indicated in his Thursday post that the State Department would review the legal status of immigrants "praising, rationalizing, or making light" of Kirk's killing and Turner asked Rubio about plans for those U.S. visa holders.
  • Rubio said a visa "means you're a visitor to the United States" and "we are not in the business of inviting people to visit our country who are going to be involved in negative and destructive behavior."
  • People who "celebrate the murder, the execution, the assassination, of a political figure" should not be allowed in the country, he said. "And if they're already here, we should be revoking their visa."

Is that legal?

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