“this one was at least willing to pretend to listen and this other guy will just deport you” I’m not skilled enough in debating to get you there

Harris never pretended to listen. In fact she was very explicit about not listening. Also to be clear, I’m not saying there’s no difference between being able to protest and not being able to protest the genocide. However, that difference only matters for people in America; for people in Palestine it doesn’t fucking matter because nothing was going to come out of these protests anyway.