EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration is discussing plans to try to block certain colleges from having any foreign students if it decides too many are "pro-Hamas," senior Justice and State Department officials tell Axios.
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Nobody in America should be pro-Hamas. They’re radical monsters. We shouldn’t have pro-Talibans in here, either. The problem is this: what makes someone guilty of being pro-Hamas? Is being pro-Palestine enough? Is it being anti-Bibi? This administration is not known for its attention to detail.
That's YOUR opinion. Which you are entitled to, THATS what freedom is all about. That's the point. Dont lose the real story here. It's about censorship and not obeying the constitution. If this is allowed, perhaps someday they will come for YOU and your views.
Are you suggesting that you CAN support terrorist groups in a country targeted by them? I think it’s closer to a fact than an opinion that that would be considered treason. The grey area is the area in which people can be grabbed and bagged without due process by an incompetent admin.
Note that I’m not arguing about speech here, I’m talking about supporting in action enemies of a a nation. Aid and comfort of the enemy. The high bar of immediately-inciting-violence-speech should remain as is. Neither have been proven to us about these decent arrests so I don’t support them.
Yup. The Israelis have killed so many women and children with the full backing of the United States that they are uncountable. I know exactly what you are, fash.
The best and brightest from around the world will no longer be coming to this country for higher education. The world is going to pass us by
Thank you DJT!
There go our Physicians. My experience has been that the best surgeons and specialists often are of Asian or Indian or some other ethnicity. So once again they just do not get it. They live in a bubble.
I know you all think you are saying good positive things, but having these expectations of immigrants is actually bad. Like saying “Chinese people are good at math” is still racist.
Clawing back hundreds of millions in funding, reducing the indirect cost rate institutions receive, & potentially ending enrollment of most/all foreign students due to this and ICE abductions. The exodus of faculty. We’ll be lucky to have any public universities left. Which I assume is the point.
And, of course, they get to decide what counts as supporting Hamas. There are plenty of freaks already trying to say opposing Israel's conduct is the same as supporting Hamas.
This will absolutely be used as a hammer to make sure universities fall in line.
I disagree Trump is Trump first, he is willing to leverage Israel's goal to further his own, the positive thing about him is that he is transparent and a loose canon, if pushed he is for turning, unlike previous presidents who are more calculated. Nearly all leaders/CEO make it to the top for a rea
Considering how much Israel gets the US (and UK) to do, it's more likely Israel has leverage over almost the entire administration.
Israel killed JFK and got away with it then and now. You think the US actually has leverage over Israel? https://x.com/BATMAN_SPOTTED/status/1905383371074929086
It is naked prejudice in all its ugly dimensions. A strong argument for students from troubled areas is to return with a more positive notion of the world and democracy.
The real on the ground effect will be no foreign students, who btw pay full freight tuition room & board. Why would anyone want to come from overseas when they might arbitrarily be scooped up and put in a prison camp??
Maybe more akin to peacenik or peacemonger from the 1960s (I believe university campuses is where a significant proportion of the protests against the war in Vietnam took place)? https://www.etymonline.com/word/peacenik
Where is free speech douchebag Matt Taibbi? He gets his panties in a bunch if people can't tell each other to fuck off on social media or if posts get low views but is silent when people are jailed for what they say. The guy is a useless idiot.
Luckily the administration is confident virtually all economists are wrong because on top of the tariff stuff they seem dedicated to cutting off brain gain in this country.
Whether you like it or not, Don, the established law is that resident aliens, even illegal aliens have the same constitutional rights to free speech.
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What is the line where a person becomes pro-Hamas? I'm asking not because I am a college student, but if I ever have to cross the US border, would I be detained and imprisoned for my antigenocide views?
First the states cut colleges loose and told them to go make money. So they raised tuition on locals and started taking in more students from foreign countries. Locals ended in debt. Now Trump wants to take the high tuition foreigners away. All to tank education.
I'm thinking foreign students will not be very interested in going to school here now - especially at schools that have shown they will not protect their students from government oppression.
Hey Axios... please call this what it is...a REGIME!
What is happening in this country is NOT NORMAL.
Disappearing people is NOT NORMAL.
Sending people who are most likely not gang members to foreign prisons without due process is NOT NORMAL.
Going after law firms is NOT NORMAL.
Call this out!!!
It will be fascinating to learn what the proposed standard for this is. Just MAGA “feels” or will there be an actual formula to determine what constitutes “pro Hamas” behavior?
This GOP purge of university students for not being pro genocide, is terrible for university towns everywhere across the US, but especially northeast from Virginia to Maine.
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Aside from that, right before the Hamas attack, Israelis were protesting against Bibi.
Bibi needed to stay in power because, like Trump, he had fraud charges to dodge.
Also, evangelicals really love Israel and it has nothing to do with supporting Jewish people.
are really trying.
Thank you DJT!
Fix your headline and pay attention.
on both ends.
go up even more after the number of foreign students dramatically drops.
Say bye bye to any foreigner in US. So no traveling industry there.
This breaks my heart.
https://45harley.github.io/boom
So, fuck ‘em.
This will absolutely be used as a hammer to make sure universities fall in line.
The USA is not a real country, not since JFK was murdered with impunity by Israel.
Israel killed JFK and got away with it then and now. You think the US actually has leverage over Israel?
https://x.com/BATMAN_SPOTTED/status/1905383371074929086
It’s discrimination and he can fuck off
https://www.etymonline.com/word/peacenik
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_capital_flight
Thanks. Canada. 🇨🇦
Fixed it for you.
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What is happening in this country is NOT NORMAL.
Disappearing people is NOT NORMAL.
Sending people who are most likely not gang members to foreign prisons without due process is NOT NORMAL.
Going after law firms is NOT NORMAL.
Call this out!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/gravelinfluencer.bsky.social/post/3llca7o5gvk2w
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