A Facebook post has led to the deportation of an Egyptian student from the United States, after he was investigated by federal agents for posting on his Facebook page that he was willing to kill Donald Trump.
According to Daily Mail, the 23-year-old Emadeldin Elsayed from Egypt was arrested by the immigration authorities last month and is being deported on the grounds that the flight school, which he attended, had terminated his enrolment and as such his student visa was no longer valid.
“I am willing to kill Donald Trump and serve a life sentence. The whole world would thank me for doing that,” Elsayed wrote on his Facebook page, according to his attorney Hani Bushra.
The Egyptian is being held in a jail in Orange, California, and is devastated over the development which his lawyer Bushra acknowledged was a foolish social media post. An immigration court hearing will determine whether Elsayed will be deported.
"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," Bushra said. "The rhetoric is particularly high in this election, and I just feel he got caught up in the middle."
Elsayed admitted that he wrote the message out of angered due to Trump's comments about Muslims. He however, regretted it and said that he never intended to harm anyone.
“It's just a stupid post. You can find thousands of these every hour on Facebook and the media,” he told The Associated Press in a phone interview from jail. “I don't know why would they think I am a threat to the national security of the United States just because of a stupid post.”
Donald Trump is the leading Republican candidate running for Presidency, and is known for his controversial statements. He has previously stated to build a wall along the entire Mexican border and has called for banning Muslims temporarily from entering the country.
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