The freedom of speech should not be understood as an all-encompassing license to violate other laws, any more than is the freedom of religion. Hamas is still a designated terrorist organization.
“Trump ordering review to identify, punish and deport antisemites — including students on visas,” by Steven Nelson, New York Post, January 29, 2025:
WASHINGTON — President Trump is expected to sign an executive order Wednesday instructing all federal agencies to identify civil and criminal authorities available to combat antisemitism — including finding ways to deport anti-Jewish activists who violated laws, The Post has learned.
The order requires agency and department leaders to provide the White House with recommendations within 60 days and outlines plans for the Justice Department to investigate pro-Hamas graffiti and intimidation, including on college campuses, according to a document describing the order.
The executive order calls for the deportation of resident aliens — including students with visas — who broke laws as part of anti-Israel protests following the Oct. 7, 2023, terrorist attacks in Israel, which sparked the invasion of Gaza, the document reviewed by The Post says….
Trump, as a candidate, called for deporting pro-Hamas students who are in the US on visas and last week signed a different executive order that seemed to hint at steps toward that goal.
That order contained a passage that called for the US to “ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States” do not “support designated foreign terrorists,” though the intended effect of the wording was not immediately clear….
Hate speech generally is legal in the US, but the House GOP report released last month argues that federal law bars recipients of taxpayer funds from tolerating discrimination — allowing a way to force recipients to stiffen policies.
Federal courts also have found that non-citizens have fewer free speech rights….
Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, the 26-year-old president of the Richmond, Va., chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, was arrested for allegedly climbing atop a monument near the Capitol and spray-painting “HAMAS IS COMIN.”…
somehistory says
Those people who are here and clamoring for the fall of the government, for Americans to be killed, are all breaking the laws of the land.
All of them…from the clerics in the mozlum barracks to the violent students on the campuses, to the goons who harassed the little school kids and the children in the hospital, should be put on flights back to the places from when they came.
Hugh Fitzgerald says
Excellent. A long time coming, but worth the wait.
Bexarkat says
I fear the first lawyer out of the gate willing to defend this thug will be Jewish. We Jews do have a self-destructive bent about us. Years ago when Ambassador Mike Huckabee noted that Obama was “Marching Israelis to the door of the oven,” I replied that was true, but it is Jews ourselves that are holding the doors open.
Cynthia says
This is a great move forward.. We also need to jail our own citizens who crossed the line from free speech to intimidation. Blocking roads without a permit, putting up Palestinian/Hamas/Hezbollah flags on federal property, defacing monuments, barring students from classes based on ethnicity…..
All crimes and some treasonous!
Troybeam says
It’s called Make America Safe Again, now if that includes all refugees from Islamic nations even better.
Dov Berrol says
Hopefully, our future Canadian Prime Minister Poilevre will do the same. It’s time Canada cleansed its university campuses of Jew-hating Jihadis on student visas.
Brenrod says
I would think that the supporters of the head chopping honor killing hamas Hezbullah types should be considered “undesirables aliens”. Also, anyone participating in protests that interfere with the rights of others by blocking, restricting movement, interfering with studies etc. are committing crimes.
Sister Alberti says
Let’s go back to Teddy Roosevelt’s immigration Sec. 2, 1903:
Of particular interest he banned, “polygamists, or persons who admit their belief in the practice of polygamy”. Back then, they recognized the profound degradation of a population which practices polygamy.
Also banned: All idiots, imbeciles, feebleminded persons, epileptics, insane persons, and persons who have been insane within five years previous; persons who have had two or more attacks of insanity at any time previously; paupers; persons likely to become a public charge; professional beggars; persons afflicted with tuberculosis or with a loathsome or dangerous contagious disease; persons not comprehended within any of the foregoing excluded classes who are found to be and are certified by the examining surgeon as being mentally or physically defective, such mental or physical defect being of a nature which may affect the ability of such alien to earn a living…[7]
I would argue that all Muslims are insane.
Brenrod says
“Zaid Mohammed Mahdawi, the 26-year-old president of the Richmond, Va., chapter of American Muslims for Palestine, was arrested for allegedly climbing atop a monument near the Capitol and spray-painting “HAMAS IS COMIN.”…
That is threatening Americans with depraved atrocities of Oct 7. CAIR and AMP should also be deported
James Lincoln says
Biden could have done this.
Why didn’t he?
Charles Valenzuela says
They supposedly came here to LEARN, not to demonstrate, riot, break or laws, and insult us. Time to send them home. Be sure to get their biometric data so they can never legally return for any reason.