Should Mahmoud Khalil be deported? No. but.

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20. Grossly insulting to civil rights heroes for you to draw that equivalence!

Your take is interesting as sophistry and mischief. But I'm essentially certain no Dem would make the equivalence you are making. It's the sort of position a Republican would falsely accuse Dems of holding in order to attack the Democratic Party and undermine the good things we stand for.

Of course, anyone who blocks traffic in violation of the law for any reason is subject to the law. That's the price of civil disobedience, and, hopefully, the people who pay that price are doing it for something good.