{"id":108147,"date":"2025-03-07T19:38:57","date_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108147"},"modified":"2025-03-07T19:38:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T01:38:57","slug":"108147","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=108147","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Trump Is Right to Deport Hamas Supporters: <\/a><\/p>\n

Federal law authorizes denying or revoking the visa of anyone who supports terrorist activity.<\/p>\n

Six weeks into the second Trump administration, and days after President Trump vowed to push back on \u201cillegal protests\u201d on college campuses, the State Department has\u00a0pulled the first visa<\/a>\u00a0of a foreign student who engaged in pro-Hamas disruptions. That\u2019s the right thing to do if we want to fix campus cultures. And contrary to disingenuous critics, such a move poses no First Amendment problems.<\/p>\n

Indeed, it\u2019s a basic application of U.S. immigration law, which says that people here on a visa (tourist, student, employment, or otherwise) who reveal themselves to be ineligible for that visa\u2014\u201cinadmissible<\/a>,\u201d in the parlance of the Immigration and Naturalization Act (INA)\u2014can have their visa revoked. As\u00a0I wrote<\/a>\u00a0in a broader analysis of campus-related civil rights issues after the October 7, 2023 attacks on Israel, \u201cThe Immigration and Nationality Act\u00a0allows<\/a>\u00a0the denial or revocation of a visa of \u2018any alien who . . . endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization.\u2019\u201d Biden\u2019s State Department also told then-Senator Marco Rubio that it could\u00a0revoke the visas of Hamas supporters<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not all Trump can do. The INA\u2019s\u00a0inadmissibility provision<\/a>\u00a0also empowers the president to \u201csuspend the entry of all aliens or any class of aliens\u201d whom he determines to be \u201cdetrimental to the interests of the United States\u201d or to impose on them \u201cany restrictions he may deem to be appropriate.\u201d During Trump\u2019s first term, the\u00a0Supreme Court upheld<\/a>\u00a0that broad grant of presidential discretion to vet, restrict, and even ban immigrants\u2014and thus to direct executive-agency action in that regard\u2014at the culmination of the high-profile \u201ctravel ban\u201d litigation. In\u00a0Trump\u00a0<\/em>v.\u00a0Hawaii<\/em>, the Court okayed an executive order restricting travel from various countries, with Chief Justice John Roberts affirming that the only statutory requirement is that the president \u201cfind\u201d the entry of the affected aliens to be \u201cdetrimental to the national interest.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s exactly what\u2019s happening now. In\u00a0one of the first executive orders<\/a>\u00a0Trump signed, he directed federal agencies to strengthen vetting and screening of those seeking admission and those already in the country, because \u201cthe United States must ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do 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.\u201d Then, as part of the \u201cAdditional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism<\/a>,\u201d he ordered the use of \u201call available and appropriate legal tools, to prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful anti-Semitic harassment and violence.\u201d<\/p>\n

All of this makes eminent sense: it\u2019s the government\u2019s duty to screen out visitors and migrants who would be harmful to our country, including those who reject our values or are hostile to our way of life, such as Communists, Nazis, or Islamists. When I got my green card, and again when I naturalized, I had to affirm that I wasn\u2019t affiliated with these groups \u201cor any other totalitarian party.\u201d To give another example in a different context, in 2020,\u00a01,000 Chinese nationals had their visas revoked<\/a>\u00a0for being national security risks\u2014and the Biden administration successfully defended that Trump action in court.<\/p>\n

These core government functions are supported by law. As the\u00a0INA says<\/a>, \u201cThe admission to the United States of any alien as a nonimmigrant shall be for such time and under such conditions as the Attorney General may by regulations prescribe.\u201d Other provisions of the law cover \u201ctravel controls of citizens and aliens<\/a>,\u201d \u201cissuance of visas<\/a>,\u201d and \u201cdeportable aliens<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the government can\u2019t send foreigners to jail for saying things it doesn\u2019t like, it can and should deny or pull visas for those who advocate for causes inimical to the United States. There\u2019s nothing objectional or controversial about removing those who harass, intimidate, vandalize, and otherwise interfere with an educational institution\u2019s core mission. More, please.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trump Is Right to Deport Hamas Supporters: Federal law authorizes denying or revoking the visa of anyone who supports terrorist activity. Six weeks into the second Trump administration, and days after President Trump vowed to push back on \u201cillegal protests\u201d on college campuses, the State Department has\u00a0pulled the first visa\u00a0of a foreign student who engaged … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,86,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-just-desserts","category-moslems-jihadis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=108147"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108147\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108148,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108147\/revisions\/108148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=108147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=108147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=108147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}