Trump Signs Unconstitutional Order To Deport Foreign Students Who Support Palestine

 

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Donald Trump signed an executive order this week that effectively strips foreign students of their First Amendment rights. The United States Constitution covers everyone in the United States, citizen or not, but Trump’s order would make it a crime for any foreign student to protest in favor of Palestine in the country. This is a blatant violation of the Constitution and will likely get struck down in court, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.   Link – https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-... Subscribe to stay connected to our stories:    / theringoffire   Support us by becoming a member on YouTube:    / @theringoffire   Or Support us on Patreon:   / theringoffire   Buy Ring of Fire merch: https://www.buyrof.com/ Find us on social media! Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffiremedia   Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   TikTok:   / ringoffiremedia   *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. On Wednesday of this week, the so-called free speech absolutist, Donald Trump took a sledgehammer to the First Amendment by signing an executive order that basically prohibits foreign students here in the United States on student visas, uh, from engaging in any form of protest. Well, I guess that's not exactly accurate, right? It's not any form of protest that he is banning them from. It's just you can't be pro-Palestinian if you protest in support of Palestine. Donald Trump's executive order says, we can deport you for that. Let me read this to you. He has directed the Justice Department to prosecute terroristic threats, arson, vandalism, and violence against American Jews, and to use the necessary federal resources to fight what it called an explosion of antisemitism. Since Hamas deadly attack on Israel in October, 2023, um, the president said that he would also cancel the visas of students. He considers Hamas sympathizers describing college campuses as infested with radicalism. So the first part, okay, if you're a student over here and you engage in terrorist terror, terroristic threats or arson, you know, basically if you commit horrible crimes, we're gonna deport you. A lot of people may see that and think, well, yeah, that makes sense, but then it gets to the nitty gritty, right? If we consider you a Hamas sympathizer, you're outta here. That's based on our opinion, not, not a law, right? Certainly not anything in the Constitution. It just says, if in our opinion you like somebody that we don't like, we can ship you back. Here's the thing, no, nobody is protected, uh, in terms of committing violent acts. You will face justice for that. Obviously, that's a given. Unless you're like Donald Trump, then of course you get off scot free. But anyway, however, every single person within the borders of the United States is protected by the US Constitution, citizen or not. So these students that are here on student visas, while they may not be citizens of the United States, they are still fully entitled to the full protections of the First Amendment of the United States, meaning they have a right to peaceably assemble. In fact, reports have shown that even though we saw all these reports of these horrible pro, pro-Palestinian protestors doing these godawful things, more than 97% of all of the protests that took place were completely peaceful. More than 97% are there gonna be random anarchists, essentially out there in literally any protest for anything? Absolutely. A lot of individuals will use these opportunities, not because they support the calls being protested. They will use These as opportunities to just be violent. There's infiltrators in every protest virtually that ever happens. But to single out this group, to say that, oh, if you're pro-Palestine, we can ship you out of the country, is number one unconstitutional and it's not gonna stand, hopefully. I mean, we, we've already seen some, you know, pretty good things from the judges handling Trump's orders. They, they've kind of been pretty good on it so far. Hopefully this one is next, but this is blatantly unconstitutional. It's un-American, and it's absolutely an excuse to target students that Trump doesn't like to get them out of the country too.