WASHINGTON, Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests.
A fact sheet on the order promises “immediate action” by the Justice Department to prosecute “terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews” and marshal all federal resources to combat what it called “the explosion of antisemitism on our campuses and streets” since the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Palestinian Islamist group Hamas.
“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,” Trump said in the 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,” the president said, echoing a 2024 campaign promise.
Rights groups and legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges.
Why do people in the US think this is the fucking peak of political engagement lmao. Oh wow you struck a name on a piece of paper handed to you by billionaires every four years, lemme give you a medal.
We’ve heard the same shit forever. You weren’t voting for half Hitler, you were voting for Hitler with a different skin on. Palestinians are people and the stopping of their genocide was non negotiable for some, and good on them. The Dems knew, and they said “fuck you”, but not all of the voters grovelled at their feet anyway.