Op-ed: Deport Aliens Advocating Evil

In then-President Joe Biden’s words, Hamas’ October 7, 2023, massacre of Israeli civilians was an act of “pure, unadulterated evil,” resulting in “the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust,” with “more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered,” “stomach-turning reports of … babies being killed.”

Yet, over the last year and a half, we have witnessed brazen celebrations on our college campuses of Hamas’ slaughter, with foreign students playing a lead role. For instance, according to the White House, Mahmoud Khalil “organized group protests (at Columbia University) that not only disrupted college campus classes and harassed Jewish-American students and made them feel unsafe on their own college campus, but also distributed pro-Hamas propaganda fliers.”

In October, Swarthmore College needed to send a message “condemning” the Swarthmore chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine’s internet post, “Happy October 7th everyone! In honor of this glorious day and all our martyred revolutionaries …” Swarthmore stated that “celebrating the killing of innocent people is shocking and reprehensible.”

It seems like a pretty commonsense proposition that a nation need not tolerate guests who celebrate and advocate mass murder. As Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has written, “While American citizens may have a First Amendment right to speak disgusting vitriol if they so choose, no foreign national has a right to advocate for terrorism in the United States.”

Fortunately, federal law provides powerful tools enabling the removal of aliens who advocate terrorism and incite genocide.

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