House antisemitism report mentions that the Department of Homeland Security isn't doing its job to deport members of terror groups ~ Elder Of Ziyon

Friday, December 20, 2024

House antisemitism report mentions that the Department of Homeland Security isn't doing its job to deport members of terror groups

On Thursday, House Republicans issued the House Antisemitism Staff Report which concentrated on how colleges and universities didn't protect Jewish students since October 7.

Beyond the focus on universities, though, it also has a section on how the Department of Homeland Security is not doing its job to deport foreigners, mostly students, who violate the law by their associations with terror organizations.

The report says:

The Committee on the Judiciary has jurisdiction over the Biden-Harris Administration’s enforcement of federal immigration law. This jurisdiction includes the adjudication, issuance, and revocation of nonimmigrant visas, such as student visas.

Certain conduct during the antisemitic protests may render aliens removable from the United States. Under the Immigration and Nationality Act (“INA”), an alien is inadmissible to and removable from the United States if the alien “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization.” Despite the clear statutory language, in October 2023, only three weeks after Hamas’s attacks on Israel, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (“DHS”) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas declined to state whether foreign students should “have their visas revoked” if they “advocate for the elimination of Israel and attacks on Jewish individuals.” Instead, Secretary Mayorkas claimed that “it is a matter of law and it requires a legal interpretation,” noting that DHS was “assessing [the] legal assertion” that those aliens could have their visas revoked.

The Committee request that the Department of Homeland Security list all of the people who violated the law and are being deported because of their association with terror groups. After some stonewalling, the DHS answered the question: Zero.

Keep in mind that in October, the US declared Samidoun - which has been instrumental in many antisemitic protests - to be a terrorist organization, a fundraising front for the Palestinian Front for the Liberation of Palestine.

Yet even before the designation, there were other reasons to investigate foreign student protesters. Not only does the law say that aliens associated with terrorism are inadmissible to the US, but also "Any immigrant who is or has been a member of or affiliated with the Communist or any other totalitarian party (or subdivision or affiliate thereof), domestic or foreign, is inadmissible."

Most of the major protests have been organized by communist groups like ANSWER (it is linked to the Party for Socialism and Liberation which describes itself as communist), and Samidoun is also linked to many communist groups itself.

In short, if the DHS wanted to protect Jews on campus, it has plenty of ammunition to not only get rid of foreign participants and supporters of antisemitic protests but also to send a message of intolerance for intolerance.