(TJV) NBC’s Seth Meyers and CBS’s Stephen Colbert used their Wednesday night shows to condemn the Trump administration for moving to deport Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia University protest leader with pro-Hamas ties. Rather than acknowledging Khalil’s role in illegal campus occupations and the distribution of extremist propaganda, the two late-night hosts painted him as a victim of Trump’s so-called “authoritarianism.”

Meyers compared the situation to a dictatorship, saying, “If you say something the regime doesn’t like, you get disappeared in the middle of the night without due process.” He conveniently ignored that Khalil’s visa was revoked on national security grounds—a clear legal basis for deportation.

Colbert, playing to his audience, mocked Trump’s enforcement of immigration law, equating it to Soviet and East German crackdowns. He even suggested Trump might start arresting comedians like himself and John Oliver—an absurd comparison given that neither of them has been caught promoting terrorist-backed causes.

Despite their dramatic rhetoric, both hosts failed to acknowledge the obvious: Khalil is a foreign national, not a U.S. citizen, and his involvement in radical activism on American soil makes him subject to deportation. Instead of addressing the facts, Meyers and Colbert chose to entertain their audiences with outlandish comparisons and fearmongering.