The president of the United States, Donald Trump, signed on Wednesday an executive order for Identify foreign students and teachers that participated in the proportive university protests in order to deport them.
The document instructs the Secretaries of State, Education and National Security to request US universities to monitor and inform about foreign students and foreign teachers who may be considered anti -Semitesin order to take measures according to the law and, if applicable, act to expel them from the country.
The order establishes several provisions on anti -Semitism, but puts the focus especially on the protests that exploded in April 2024 on campus throughout the United States against the war in Gaza and Washington’s support to Israel, which lasts for about three months and left a balance of about 3,100 detainees.
In the text, Trump underlines that he decided anti -Semitic harassment in schools and university campuses“
Although the document assumes that the protesters committed anti -Semitic acts, they have denied that their protests had that intention or that they somehow support Hamas, and argue that They demonstrated against the Israeli military offensive in Gazawhich has left more than 47,000 dead.
The Islamic-American Relations Council (CAIR), one of the country’s main organizations in defense of Muslims’ rights, warned that if the order is implemented It will challenge her in court.
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