President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Wednesday instructing federal agencies to identify and deport international students who broke laws while participating in pro-Palestine demonstrations.
The order, first reported by the New York Post, will instruct the Justice Department to investigate antisemitic graffiti and intimidation on college campuses. Federal agencies will be given 60 days to issue recommendations for the White House regarding how to address antisemitism in the U.S.
“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,” Trump wrote in a document describing the planned order, according to Reuters.
“I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before,” he added.
Though Columbia University is expected to be a main target, Harvard could be the subject of a potential investigation over antisemitic stickers found near Harvard Hillel that featured a swastika. University Hall and the John Harvard statue in Harvard Yard were also vandalized in October.
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