{"id":23780,"date":"2016-03-08T23:34:21","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/egyptian-student-agrees-to-leave-us-after-trump\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T23:34:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T23:34:04","slug":"egyptian-student-agrees-to-leave-us-after-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/egyptian-student-agrees-to-leave-us-after-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Egyptian student agrees to leave US after Trump comment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{A student pilot from Egypt has agreed to leave the US after posting on Facebook that the world would thank him if he killed Donald Trump.}<\/p>\n<p>Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, was not charged with a crime but the US authorities sought to deport him, his attorney, Hani Bushra, said.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration authorities said they would allow him to return home voluntarily as long as he departed by 5 July.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Elsayed is being held in a jail in California after his visa was revoked.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bushra said on Monday that Mr Elsayed&#8217;s detention was illegal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s being detained, I think, primarily because he&#8217;s a Muslim and he&#8217;s a Middle Easterner,&#8221; Mr Bushra told the AP news agency. &#8220;This kid is going to become a poster boy for hating America.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>US Secret Service agents interviewed Mr Elsayed in early February after he posted a photo of Mr Trump on Facebook and wrote he was willing to serve a life sentence for killing the billionaire, and the world would thank him, Mr Bushra said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Elsayed had said earlier that he never intended to hurt anyone. He said he wrote the post because of Mr Trump&#8217;s comments about Muslims.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Trump, who is leading the race for the Republican nomination for the presidency, has promised a crackdown on immigration. He has vowed to build a wall along the entire Mexican border and called for a temporary ban on Muslims entering the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10833 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_88565486_88565484.jpg\" alt=\"Emadeldin Elsayed posted on Facebook that he thought the world would forgive him if he killed Donald Trump\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{A student pilot from Egypt has agreed to leave the US after posting on Facebook that the world would thank him if he killed Donald Trump.} Emadeldin Elsayed, 23, was not charged with a crime but the US authorities sought to deport him, his attorney, Hani Bushra, said. Immigration authorities said they would allow him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[100],"byline":[249],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-africa","byline-bbc"],"bylines":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"contributors":[{"id":249,"name":"BBC","slug":"bbc","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":104}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23780"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}