Trump’s deport vow vs. students
Former President Donald Trump blasted the anti-Israel protests erupting across US college campuses as a “radical revolution” and vowed to deport any foreign students involved if he were re-elected, he told donors in New York this month.
“One thing I do is [with] any student that protests — I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students,” Trump told the group during a May 14 roundtable, according to The Washington Post.
“As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave,” the defiant 2024 hopeful added.
During the meeting, at least one of the donors reportedly bemoaned the possibility that one of the student protesters could eventually rise to political power in the future.
But Trump, 77, assured the donors he would fight to end the “radical revolution” on college campuses, declaring it “has to be stopped now,” The Washington Post reported.
Trump campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt blamed President Biden for empowering the protesters in a statement to The Post Monday.
“Joe Biden has sided with radical leftist Democrats like Ilhan Omar and Rashida Talib and empowered antisemitic protestors destroying our college campuses and threatening to undermine our democracy,” she said.
“President Trump will side with Jewish Americans and American citizens, period, and he will not tolerate terrorist sympathizers on our college campuses.”
The 45th president has also publicly vowed to clamp down on anti-Israel protesters. Weeks after the bloody Oct. 7, 2023 surprise Hamas attack that killed some 1,200 in Israel, Trump pledged to deport the “resident aliens” who joined the “pro-jihadist protest.”