Foreign exchange student gets jailed & deported for threatening Trump

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A 23-year-old Egyptian studying to be a pilot in Southern California will be escorted back to his home country by immigration agents after he posted on Facebook that he’d be willing to kill Donald Trump.

Emadeldin Elsayed will remain in Immigration and Customs Enforcement custody as the government makes arrangements for his departure, agency spokeswoman Virginia Kice told BuzzFeed News. A judge denied his request to be released on bond while he awaits his departure at a date that officials would not confirm.

It’s a move that has left Elsayed and his attorney dumbfounded. Facing formal deportation proceedings, Elsayed agreed to leave the U.S. voluntarily, his attorney, Hani Bushra, said. But instead of getting on the next flight to Egypt, he’s waiting in a jail cell while the U.S. arranges an escort.

If the government believed Elsayed had committed a crime, they should have charged him with one, Bushra added, not pressured him with challenges to his immigration status.

“The use of the immigration system as a punitive measure is kind of disturbing,” he said. “But it’s a new trend.”

Full story: http://www.buzzfeed.com/claudiakoerner/egyptian-student-to-leave-us-after-threatening-donald-trump#.pwzjq4PxX

 

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Where the Americans at telling me about their "freedom of speech" and how Germany considering Holocaust denial as a criminal offense is a travesty and violation of freedom of speech now?

 

[Poot 719]

well if u make threats like this, this seems a normal thing to do

[SissyFromSpace 20,884]

he should have shot him

 

[SissyFromSpace 20,884]

the link to the article is wrong

 

[Sizzily 14,571]

I don't know what he expected  Other people can get away with it because the are actually citizens here.

But slay at you promoting Lily Wachowski!

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48 minutes ago, Lance said:

the link to the article is wrong

 

Whoopsie

OP is updated.

 

[Knife 7,080]

It's unfair, but making a criminal threat while being under immigrant/visa status is not the wisest of things to do.

He was probably already under watch just for being Egyptian, but then you go and make a public threat of violence..? Not good.

[RAMROD 117,195]

Well, that is not smart being an outsider and threatening somebody's life so openly. 

Also,

Freedom of speech does not mean threating somebody life is alright, get some extra brain cells or something?

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"He was interviewed by Secret Service agents on Feb. 4, Bushra said. Eight days later, they returned to tell him that while he would not be charged with a crime, his visa to attend flight school had been revoked."

The Secret Service is a federal law enforcement agency under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. They must have thought there were reasons to deport this guy. Oh well, he can go get his flight training somewhere else. 

[Lion Heart 15,041]

"Freedom of Speech" does not give you the right to make a death threat against anyone.

In Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire (1942), the Supreme Court held that speech is unprotected if it constitutes "fighting words". Fighting words, as defined by the Court, is speech that "tend to incite an immediate breach of the peace" by provoking a fight, so long as it is a "personally abusive [word] which, when addressed to the ordinary citizen, is, as a matter of common knowledge, inherently likely to provoke a violent reaction".

Threats of violence that are directed at a person or group of persons that has the intent of placing the target at risk of bodily harm or death are generally unprotected.

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^IDK why it's being crossed out. That is not intentional.