An immigration court will determine whether Elsayed will be deported.
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“It seems like the government was not able to get a criminal charge to stick on him, so they used the immigration process to have him leave the country”, attorney Hani Bushra told ABC.
‘The rhetoric is particularly high in this election, and I just feel he got caught up in the middle’.
Bushra said Elsayed’s Facebook message was in response to Trump’s anti-Muslim rhetoric and was accompanied by an article on the issue.
After facing worldwide backlash, Trump defended his idea claiming his ideas were no worse than those of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt, who oversaw the internment of more than 110,000 people in USA government camps after Japanese forces bombed Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Emadeldin Elsayed’s Facebook rant is alleged to have come after the outspoken real estate billionaire gave an impassioned speech last month where he reiterated his stance, that if elected he would call for a ban on Muslim immigrants entering the US. That means El Sayed will have to return to Egypt. Interestingly, authorities apparently based the revocation of his visa not on the threats, but on evidence that he had recently ended his enrollment at Universal Air Academy, a flight school in Los Angeles that he was attending. “You can find thousands of these every hour on Facebook and the media”, he was quoted by the Associated Press as saying.
‘I don’t know why they would think I am a threat to the national security of the United States just because of a stupid post’.
Agents with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement took Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, into custody February 12 for “violating the terms of his admission” into the country, said ICE Spokeswoman Virginia Kice.
Of note, the state department, secret service and representatives for Donald Trump have declined to respond to media overtures for comment. In that comment, according to a court filing that sought to keep him in custody, Elsayed said he would not mind being sentenced to life in prison for killing Trump and that if he did so he would be doing the world a favor.
Elsayed is from Cairo, but he said he spent much of his life in Saudi Arabia, where his father worked as a civil engineer. “He was so friendly with everyone”. Unless ICE has a change of heart, Elsayed may just ask on Friday to be sent back to Egypt straight from his cell at the Theo Lacy Jail, Bushra said.
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“He is honestly a good student”, Khatib said.
