Fox host: “Free speech, I thought — under our laws and Constitution — was for our citizens”
Harris Faulkner: “Mahmoud Khalil was not a citizen. He was here first on a student visa and green card, then. He's not a citizen. We don't have to promise him anything.”
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From the March 19, 2025 edition of Fox News' The Faulkner Focus
HARRIS FAULKNER (HOST): Noncitizens, though. I mean, how can they expect to be protected by our Constitution, or would they be?
REP. KAT CAMMACK (R-FL): Well, there is a big argument taking place right now in our country. And I will say as the co-chair of the campus free speech caucus, I am always going to support free speech. But the five tenets of the First Amendment — they include your right to free speech so long it doesn't infringe upon the rights of others. And as we have seen from these groups — that guide is a prime example of this — they seek to harass, intimidate, cancel, shut down our Jewish-American students. And as someone who represents the largest Jewish student body in the country at the University of Florida — go Gators, of course — we're seeing where this type of behavior is leading to an infringement on the rights of law-abiding citizens. So not only have we seen where these protests have turned violent, but they are not rooted in peaceful assembly, they are not rooted in free speech, they are rooted in generating acts of terror against law-abiding American citizens. So I know that most of these students who are speaking out for — on behalf of the Jewish students on campus, they are trying to bring reason to a situation where you have unreasonable people. They don't want a healthy debate on campus. They want to terrorize people on campus.
FAULKNER: Well, clearly they're good at it. Look, free speech, I thought — under our laws and Constitution — was for our citizens. Mahmoud Khalil was not a citizen. He was here first on a student visa and green card, then. He's not a citizen. We don't have to promise him anything. We are a great country. It's very gracious of us to give him anything. And we can give him a free ride back to wherever he'd like to go. But you just said it.