Last month Donald Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who advocate for Palestine. Mondoweiss talked to legal experts about its possible impact and the wider attacks on Palestine advocacy in the U.S.
On January 29 President Donald Trump signed an executive order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who participated in protests opposing the Gaza genocide across college campuses last year.
“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 Trump in a fact sheet released alongside the order. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
The order reaffirms Executive Order 13899, which was issued during the first Trump administration in 2019.
That order directed agencies tasked with enforcing Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, like the Department of Education, to consider the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism, a controversial document that equates certain criticisms of Israel with antisemitism.
The new order takes additional measures in response to an “unrelenting barrage of discrimination” allegedly faced by Jewish students after the October 7 Hamas attack.
The order calls for schools to become familiar with the grounds for inadmissibility under 8 U.S.C 1182, which applies to immigration.
“Such institutions may monitor for and report activities by alien students and staff relevant to those grounds and for ensuring that such reports about aliens lead, as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove such aliens,” it reads. (more...)
Breaking down Trump’s executive order targeting Palestine activists
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