Thursday, January 30, 2025

Trump to cancel student visas for Palestine protesters

 

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"To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you," said a fact sheet released by The White House.

Donald Trump will sign an executive order to deport non-citizen university students who have participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide.

“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” said the President in a fact sheet. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”

Although the order has not been issued yet, the White House has released materials in support of the order and unnamed White House officials have been quoted in the press saying the announcement can be expected as early as today.

These efforts are ostensibly being carried out to combat antisemitism, but are clearly being implemented to crack down on critics of Israel. “My promise to Jewish Americans is this: With your vote, I will be your defender, your protector, and I will be the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House,” reads the fact sheet.

The order reportedly instructs the Justice Department to “aggressively prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews” and “takes forceful and unprecedented steps to marshal all Federal resources to combat the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and in our streets since October 7, 2023.”  (more...)

Trump to cancel student visas for Palestine protesters

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