Judge Clears Way For Trump To Deport Islamic Leader Accused Of

Salah Sarsour has lived in Milwaukee for more than thirty years. That is a long time, and it makes Wednesday's ruling feel uncomfortable to people who like to believe time wipes the slate clean. But the immigration judge saw what the left would rather forget: Sarsour was convicted in Israel as a teenager for hurling Molotov cocktails. That is not a teen prank. It is violence with intent, and the judge ruled it is enough to deport him on national security grounds.

The judge didn't send an innocent man away. She looked at the record and made a call. The usual voices will scream that he was young, that he has been a law-abiding resident since, that he leads the Islamic Society of Milwaukee, the largest mosque in Wisconsin. None of that changes what he did. We don't get to pick and choose which facts matter. The same people who want to "believe all" when it suits them now demand we ignore a documented conviction.

Religious freedom means we don't hate the mosque. But it doesn't mean we give its president a pass when he has a terrorism conviction in his past. That distinction used to be easy. The left made it impossible. They will call this ruling Islamophobic. It's not. It's about a man who threw firebombs as a teenager and then kept living here on borrowed time.

Trump vowed to stop this. He kept his word. The system finally caught up with Sarsour. For anyone upset about that, ask yourself a simple question: if the convicted leader were from a different faith and a different political party, would you be this angry? The answer tells you all you need to know.