REPORT: Trump signs order to cancel student visas and deport Hamas sympathizers

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From the Washington Free Beacon: President Donald Trump signed an executive order Wednesday directing all federal agencies to look into deporting anti-Semitic resident aliens, including student visa holders, who broke U.S. law.

The order, released Wednesday afternoon and part of the Trump administration’s larger push against anti-Semitism, calls for deporting anti-Jewish protesters who committed crimes following Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks. It also gives agency leaders 60 days to submit recommendations to the White House and instructs the Justice Department to investigate pro-Hamas intimidation and graffiti on college campuses and beyond.

House Republicans have pushed for stronger federal action on anti-Semitism, with six GOP-led committees issuing a report last month that blasted the Biden administration for not preventing anti-Semitism on campus. The report singled out Columbia University, which received $2.7 billion in federal funding in fiscal year 2023. An encampment at the university last year featured anti-Semitic rhetoric and ignited anti-Israel protests nationwide.

During the encampment, anti-Israel activists staged weeks of protests at Columbia, at one point storming and occupying a campus building and calling for an “intifada” against Jews. The Ivy League university faced further scrutiny when administrators were caught exchanging text messages that scoffed at Jewish students’ concerns over the eruption of anti-Semitism, the Washington Free Beacon reported.


The report also explains that just last week, Trump signed an executive order which lays the groundwork for pro-Hamas students in the US on visas to be deported. The order mandated that the government “ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States” do not “support designated foreign terrorists.”

Trump promised to sign such an order multiple times during his presidential campaign.

Rep. Burgess Owens (R-Utah) wrote, “President Trump will cancel the student visas and deport all terrorist sympathizers who joined pro-Hamas protests on college campuses. If you’re here to disrupt and tear down rather than contribute and learn—it’s time to pack your bags.”

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