Trump order appears to target some foreigners participating in anti-Israel protests.

TOI ^ | 1.21.25

[Words Matter]

Executive decree says US government must be 'vigilant' in issuing visas and ensure recipients support 'do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists.' By Jacob Magid and ToI Staff.
21 January 2025.
Trump order appears to target some foreigners participating in anti-Israel protests.



An anti-Israel protester appears to be wearing a Hamas headband and carrying an approximation of the terror group's flag at a rally in New York City on May 18, 2024. (John Lamparski / AFP)

An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to target, among others, foreign nationals who participated in anti-Israel protests that swept throughout the country since Hamas’s October 7, 2023, onslaught, and which sometimes featured support for the Palestinian terror group.

The Executive Order Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Threats stated that the government must be “vigilant” in issuing visas to foreign nationals and ensure that those approved “do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.”

The order signed by Trump shortly after his inauguration required the US government to ensure that foreign nationals “not bear hostile attitudes toward its 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.”

Trump campaigned on cracking down on the anti-Israel protests, particularly those on college campuses, but it was not yet clear how exactly he’d go about doing it, given free speech laws in the US.

“When I am president we will not allow our colleges to be taken over by violent radicals,” Trump said at a rally in May. “If you come 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.”

The Republican party also included a commitment to “deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again” on a list of 20 promises made in the party platform adopted at its National Convention in July.

[Words Matter]

I'm sure CAIR/SJP are worried now.

[madison10]

Free trips to whatever h311holes from which they crawled.

[EvilCapitalist]

God Bless and Protect President Trump.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

“...appeared to target, among others, foreign nationals who participated in anti-Israel protests”

APPEARED???

[vpintheak]

Give them the boot! Behave or get out!

[E. Pluribus Unum]

They say that like it’s a bad thing.

[toddausauras]

Deport or execute.

[sauropod]

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[Diana in Wisconsin]

I don’t think it ‘appears’ to ‘say’ anything other than, ‘GTFO!’

[Steely Tom]

They say that like it’s a bad thing.

Yeah, I think we're supposed to feel outraged.

[MinorityRepublican]

Will need to get a private agency to vet the student visas. Can’t trust what we’re using now.

[af_vet_1981]

So much winning !

[DesertRhino]

They pick up on things real quick. Mask wearing foreign supporters of Hamas, marching in the street to celebrate October 7th, and hates America. Now Trump wants to send them home?

The horror lol.

[DesertRhino]

You know, if I were a foreigner in some other country, raising hell and menacing the locals... it would occur to me that if they disappeared me and whacked me, it would be the perfect crime. Nobody local would be searching for me. If someone did notice, they would assume I went back to America.
People here would just say “he went to Spain, and nobody has heard from him since”.

I know Palestinians are low-IQ, but they are sure out over the tips of their skis.

[toddausauras]

Great points.

[the OlLine Rebel]

I’m confused. Is this supposed to be bad or good?

Not sure it even makes any difference…but maybe liberals who love everyone but Americans think so.

[MNJohnnie]

We are under no obligation to let non citizen terrorists sympathizers to stay here. Free Speech is does not allow one to advocate for violence and murder.

If you go to another country they are allowed to evict you for what ever reason they want. There is no right to be in the USA for non citizens

[rlmorel]

"...Trump order appears to target some foreigners participating in anti-Israel protests..."

Appears? Appears?

I damn sure hope that was the specific purpose.

[rlmorel]

Hahahahaha...I had the exact same response as you did!

“Appears”!

I don’t get it. If I went over to Germany and started agitating against the German government (or any other country and protested against their government) I would fully expect to be deported.

At best.

[KC_Conspirator]

If they mean terrorists in the US, well then, yes.