Trump Promises to ‘Immediately Deport’ Foreign Students Involved in Anti-Israel Protests:
Former president Donald Trump, at a Sunday rally in Democratic-heavy New Jersey, promised to “immediately deport” foreign students who participate in anti-Israel protests amid recent chaotic campus demonstrations disrupting academia.
“When I’m president, we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals,” he said. “If you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or antisemitism to campuses, we will immediately deport you. You’ll be out of that school.”
After protests erupted on college campuses in the weeks following Hamas’s brutal invasion of Israel on October 7, House Republicans sent a letter to the State Department and the Department of Homeland Security demanding that foreign students who participated in rallies in support of Hamas be deported.
“We are concerned by recent reports of demonstrations on U.S. soil, including student demonstrations, in support of Hamas, a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization, following the shocking terrorist attacks by Hamas on our closest ally in the Middle East, Israel. These demonstrations potentially involve student visa holders,” Representatives Jim Banks (R., Ind.) and Jeff Duncan (R., S.C.) wrote in a letter addressed to Secretaries Antony Blinken and Alejandro Mayorkas.
The letter noted the many Students for Justice in Palestine chapters have issued statements praising Hamas terrorists as freedom fighters or martyrs and justifying their onslaught as necessary for the liberation of the Palestinian people.
Signed by more than a dozen House Republicans, the letter demanded that the State Department and DHS investigate whether non–immigrant visa holders “have been rendered ineligible as a result of ‘endorsing or espousing’ terrorist activity by Hamas?” --->READ MORE HERE
'We'll Immediately Deport You' | Trump Ramps Up Campus Protests Over Israel-Palestine as Key Campaign Issue Against Bidenl
Former U.S. President Donald Trump over the past several days has demonstrated with increasing clarity how he intends to focus on nationwide dissent over the Biden administration's positions on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a key campaign issue heading into the general election – with a particular focus on the protests roiling college campuses across the nation.
At a campaign rally in New Jersey over the weekend, the presumptive 2024 Republican nominee vowed to deport pro-Palestinian protesters currently in the U.S. on student visas.
"When I'm president, we will not allow colleges to be taken over by violent radicals," he told the crowd. "If you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism, or anti-Americanism, or antisemitism to our campuses we will immediately deport you, you'll be out of that school."
Trump has promoted this position since the days after Hamas attacked Israel on October 7, adopting it from his former primary rivals who have since endorsed him.
He made the policy a focal point of his address to October's annual gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition in Las Vegas, though the issue has gained significantly more national traction in recent weeks since the campus protest movement has become among the most significant issues heading into the general election. --->READ MORE HERE
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