‘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 said.
President Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order on Jan. 29 to combat anti-Semitism in the United States, particularly on college and university campuses, amid a rise in hatred against Jews and Israel.
The executive order would allow students on U.S. visas to be deported if they express views that, for example, support the terrorist group Hamas. The terrorist organization was behind the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel, which was the largest single-day massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
The massacre led to fighting between Israel and Hamas, which has since been halted—at least temporarily—due to a cease-fire implemented earlier this month.
In a fact sheet obtained by The Epoch Times, the White House said that since the Oct. 7, 2023, assault, “pro-Hamas aliens and left-wing radicals began a campaign of intimidation, vandalism, and violence on the campuses and streets of America.”
The Trump administration said that these individuals have been “celebrating Hamas’ mass rape, kidnapping, and murder, they physically blocked Jewish Americans from attending college classes, obstructed synagogues and assaulted worshippers, and vandalized American monuments and statues.”
There have been 1,039 reported incidents of anti-Semitism on campuses during the 2024–2025 academic year, according to Hillel International, which provides resources and services, such as Sabbath meals, to Jewish students on campuses.
Between July 2023 and December 2024, there were 2,061 reported anti-Semitic incidents, a spike from the period between July and December 2022, when there were 135 such incidents reported, according to Hillel International.
Between Oct. 7, 2023, and Sept. 24, 2024, there were more than 10,000 instances of anti-Semitism, a 200 percent increase from the period between Oct. 7, 2022, and Sept. 24, 2023, according to the Anti-Defamation League.
“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 said in the fact sheet. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.”
In December 2019, Trump signed an executive order to apply Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to Jewish people. Title VI prohibits educational institutions that receive federal funding from discriminating against people based on national origin, color, and race. The House passed a bill last year to codify this into law, but the Senate did not bring it up for a vote.
During his presidential campaign, Trump vowed to protect Jewish Americans.
“My promise to Jewish Americans is this: With your vote, I will be your defender, your protector, and I will be the best friend Jewish Americans have ever had in the White House,” he said in September 2024.
Shortly after taking office on Jan. 20, Trump signed an executive order titled “Protecting the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats,” which included calling on the administration to “recommend any actions necessary to protect the American people from the actions of foreign nationals who have undermined or seek to undermine the fundamental constitutional rights of the American people, including … provid[ing] aid, advocacy, or support for foreign terrorists.”