Gop Bill Seeks To Ban And Deport Visa Holders Who Support Hamas Amid Wave Of Antisemitic Violence In America

FIRST ON FOX: New authorities would broadly prohibition immoderate visa holders who support Hamas aliases different designated panic groups from remaining successful nan U.S. 

The Terrorist Inadmissibility Codification Act, led by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, expands existent rule nether the Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibition immoderate members of Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, ISIS and Palestine Islamic Jihad from entering aliases remaining successful nan U.S. – successful summation to anyone who endorses aliases espouses nan activity of these groups. 

"There is nary spot successful America for overseas adversaries aliases violent sympathizers. As our federation faces a disturbing emergence successful antisemitic and forbidden alien panic attacks, on pinch expanding pro-Hamas sentiment connected our assemblage campuses," Pfluger said successful a statement. "We must return action to guarantee our borders are unafraid from those wishing harm against Americans."

The measure comes aft a activity of antisemitic attacks successful ray of Israel’s violative run successful Gaza that followed Hamas’ Oct. 7 attacks. 

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The Terrorist Inadmissibility Codification Act, led by Rep. August Pfluger, R-Texas, expands existent rule nether nan Immigration and Nationality Act to prohibition immoderate members of Hamas, Hezbollah, al Qaeda, ISIS and Palestine Islamic Jihad aliases their supporters from entering aliases staying successful nan U.S. (Getty Images)

The Trump management has started revoking student visas of those who prosecute successful pro-Gaza protestation activity. The State Department paused caller student visa interviews precocious past period while it restructures nan vetting process. 

The Immigration and Nationality Act already bars individuals who prosecute successful violent activity, are members of designated Foreign Terrorist Organizations aliases who supply worldly support to specified groups. However, overmuch of this is interpreted connected a case-by-case basis, often requiring evidentiary thresholds specified arsenic impervious of nonstop engagement aliases financial aliases worldly aid. It is taxable to nan whims of administrative designations. 

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The Trump management has begun revoking student visas of those who prosecute successful pro-Gaza protestation activity. (Martin Pope/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)

The Terrorist Inadmissibility Codification Act seeks to broaden these standards by codifying that specified endorsement aliases espousal of terrorist groups’ ideology could beryllium grounds for inadmissibility aliases deportation. 

This could awesome a displacement from conduct-based migration enforcement to speech- aliases association-based scrutiny: moreover those who are not general members of overseas violent organizations could person their reside scrutinized for support of specified groups. 

An onslaught successful Boulder, Colorado, connected June 1 connected a group gathered to raise consciousness astir hostages gathered successful Gaza was nan latest successful a drawstring of unit believed to beryllium antisemitic successful nature. 

An onslaught successful Boulder, Colorado, connected June 1 connected a group gathered to raise consciousness astir hostages gathered successful Gaza was nan latest successful a drawstring of unit believed to beryllium antisemitic successful nature. (KDVR)

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The suspect, Mohammed Sabry Soliman, told constabulary he wanted to "kill each Zionist people" and is accused of throwing Molotov cocktails astatine demonstrators. 

In May, a young Washington, D.C., mates was killed extracurricular nan Capital Jewish Museum by a fishy who shouted "free Palestine" pursuing nan shooting.