Jan 30, 2025 11:44 PM
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Trump order cracks down on antisemitism & could deport foreign student protesters
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/g-s1-4546...port-hamas
INTRO: An executive order signed Wednesday by President Trump outlines a broad federal crackdown on "the explosion of antisemitism" in the U.S., especially on college campuses, and says he will cancel visas of foreign students who are "Hamas sympathizers" and deport "pro-jihadist" protesters.
"We put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and will deport you," read a White House fact sheet about the order posted online Thursday.
The order cites "an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence" and states that U.S. policy "shall be" to use "all available and appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence." It also directs all U.S. department and agency heads to come up with new means they could employ to combat antisemitism within 60 days.
The order also lays out how some student protests could be considered a violation of existing federal law that bars individuals from supporting terrorism, and it directs government officials to encourage schools to monitor and report any such activities by foreign students so they can be investigated and possibly deported.
Current immigration law — cited in the order — authorizes the deportation of a noncitizen who "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization." The U.S. government considers Hamas a terrorist organization.
Trump's order was welcomed by students who've been reporting an alarming spike in antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas led the attack on Israel that triggered the current war... (MORE - details)
https://www.npr.org/2025/01/30/g-s1-4546...port-hamas
INTRO: An executive order signed Wednesday by President Trump outlines a broad federal crackdown on "the explosion of antisemitism" in the U.S., especially on college campuses, and says he will cancel visas of foreign students who are "Hamas sympathizers" and deport "pro-jihadist" protesters.
"We put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and will deport you," read a White House fact sheet about the order posted online Thursday.
The order cites "an unprecedented wave of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism and violence" and states that U.S. policy "shall be" to use "all available and appropriate legal tools to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence." It also directs all U.S. department and agency heads to come up with new means they could employ to combat antisemitism within 60 days.
The order also lays out how some student protests could be considered a violation of existing federal law that bars individuals from supporting terrorism, and it directs government officials to encourage schools to monitor and report any such activities by foreign students so they can be investigated and possibly deported.
Current immigration law — cited in the order — authorizes the deportation of a noncitizen who "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization." The U.S. government considers Hamas a terrorist organization.
Trump's order was welcomed by students who've been reporting an alarming spike in antisemitism since Oct. 7, 2023, when Hamas led the attack on Israel that triggered the current war... (MORE - details)