The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has signed an executive order to fight antisemitism, pledging to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests.
The order vows immediate action by the Justice Department to prosecute terroristic threats, vandalism, and violence against American Jews, VisaGuide.World reports.
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. I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.
Deporting Non-Citizens Based on Their Political Speech Unconstitutional
The US President’s decision has sparked controversies among rights groups and legal scholars, stressing that it would violate constitutional free speech rights and bring legal challenges.
The First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities. Deporting non-citizens on the basis of their political speech would be unconstitutional.
Tightened Immigration Rules
Since Trump took power as the new US President, tightened immigration rules have been among the key priorities for his administration.
Recently, he unfolded plans to transform the United States detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a new center for undocumented immigrants.
Under the recently signed legislation, the Laken Riley Act, the administration of President Trump plans to expel a large number of undocumented persons from this country.
The Department of Homeland Security of the United States is required to detain all those who are staying in the United States in an irregular way or who are either arrested or charged with burglary or any similar activity. They can be subject to deportation, regardless of whether they are convicted of a crime, according to a report from Al Jazeera.
The decision sparked controversies among human rights organizations. These organizations have previously called for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention center as a result of inhuman treatment in the facility and a lack of legal protections.
Earlier this month, the US President also decided to abolish birthright citizenship in the United States. Jus Solis gave the legal right for children born in the US to acquire citizenship automatically.