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Trump’s anti-Palestinian policies jeopardize international students’ ability to maintain their U.S. visa status.

A White House official announced that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order on Wednesday to authorize deporting non-citizen college students as well as other participants from pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

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The fact sheet from Donald Trump warned all resident aliens participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations that federal agents will locate them in 2025 for deportation.

My Operation will rapidly repeal student visas from those who support Hamas on academic grounds because these institutions have become extremely radical and anti-American.

A prolonged Palestinian protest wave ignited by the Israeli Gaza assault disrupted US college campuses for several months leading civil rights groups to record the rise of antisemitic incidents as well as Islamophobic and anti-Arab events.

The federal government stopped accepting grants together with student loans as per Trump’s directive.

The directive demands that White House officials receive recommendations about existing enforcement tools from heads of departments and agencies during a 60-day period while requiring active removal of foreigners who violate US laws.

The fact sheet offered evidence about protesters who showed support for Hamas and prevented Jewish students from entering class while attacking Jewish worshippers at synagogues alongside defacement of U.S. national monuments.

Many supporters of Palestine insisted their demonstrations opposed Israeli military attacks in Gaza while offering no backing for Hamas or antisemitic behavior. Their focus remained on the reported deaths in Gaza exceeding 47,000 civilians.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations criticizes Trump’s administration for endangering Palestinian human rights and free speech under false pretenses through their new antisemitism fight. The organization asserts that the recent order represents a futile statement which will prove difficult to enforce.

In his run for the 2024 election Trump vowed to remove “pro-Hamas” students in America who held visas from the country.

The executive order he executed on his inaugural day provides organizations that monitor rights violations with indications about implementing limitations for predominantly Muslim and Arab nations’ travel entries while increasing his administration’s power to use ideological exemptions to deny visas and deport people currently present in the country.