President Donald Trump’s executive order on foreigners who “support designated foreign terrorists” could be the start of a previously promised crackdown on radical pro-Palestinian students on American college campuses.
The Monday directive from Trump orders the U.S. government to deport foreigners who “bear hostile attitudes toward [American] citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.” That could describe plenty of foreign students advocating for Hamas and other terrorist groups at American universities, an analyst told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“If a student group explicitly endorses terrorism or engages in criminality, and its leader is here on a visa, then that [student] doesn’t deserve to be here, benefiting from the country that he or she is assaulting,” Ryan Mauro, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, told the DCNF. “Likewise, if a protestor is explicitly endorsing terrorism or ideologically-motivated crime and is here on a visa, they should also be removed."
Mauro wrote a 122-page report on anti-Israel activism, labeling Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) the “group by far most responsible” for what he calls a “pro-terrorism” movement at colleges. The group has led demonstrations across the country and came into the spotlight in October 2023 for calling Hamas’s massacre of Israelis a “historic win.”
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The Monday directive from Trump orders the U.S. government to deport foreigners who “bear hostile attitudes toward [American] citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.” That could describe plenty of foreign students advocating for Hamas and other terrorist groups at American universities, an analyst told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“If a student group explicitly endorses terrorism or engages in criminality, and its leader is here on a visa, then that [student] doesn’t deserve to be here, benefiting from the country that he or she is assaulting,” Ryan Mauro, investigative researcher at Capital Research Center, told the DCNF. “Likewise, if a protestor is explicitly endorsing terrorism or ideologically-motivated crime and is here on a visa, they should also be removed."
Mauro wrote a 122-page report on anti-Israel activism, labeling Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) the “group by far most responsible” for what he calls a “pro-terrorism” movement at colleges. The group has led demonstrations across the country and came into the spotlight in October 2023 for calling Hamas’s massacre of Israelis a “historic win.”
Bye-bye pro-Hamas students and professors here on visas
From one of Trump’s new executive orders: pic.twitter.com/yo26wrdJSg
— Eitan Fischberger (@EFischberger) January 21, 2025
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