Imagine inviting someone into your home, offering them your best hospitality, only to have them stand in your living room and announce their plans to burn your house down. Most Americans would show such a guest the door faster than you can say “there’s the exit.” Yet for years, we’ve allowed foreign nationals to enjoy our world-class universities while openly supporting terrorist organizations that threaten our allies and our values.
For years, our prestigious universities have become staging grounds for increasingly radical ideologies. Students paying six-figure tuition fees now regularly find themselves dodging protest encampments just to attend their classes. Jewish students in particular have reported feeling unsafe, with some even hiding their religious identities just to navigate campus life without harassment.
President Trump made waves this week by taking decisive action against one particularly vocal anti-American agitator. The Department of Homeland Security arrested Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who had been leading pro-Hamas demonstrations while residing in the United States on a visa.
From ‘The Daily Wire’:
“I think we ought to get them all out of the country,” Trump told reporters when asked about Khalil. “They’re troublemakers. They’re agitators. They don’t love our country. We ought to get them the hell out.”
Trump didn’t mince words when asked about the arrest, which he had earlier described on social media as “the first arrest of many to come.” After watching recordings of Khalil’s statements, which the president described as “plenty bad,” Trump made it clear that foreign nationals who support terrorist organizations shouldn’t expect to enjoy American hospitality.
Sorry, Your Visa Just Expired… Permanently
House Speaker Mike Johnson quickly reinforced the president’s stance, making it clear that the administration isn’t backing down from its commitment to restore order on college campuses.
Johnson, who personally visited Columbia University during the height of the protests, described a chaotic scene where Jewish students were advised to avoid campus entirely due to safety concerns.
From ‘The Daily Wire’:
“If you’re on a student visa, and you’re in America, and you’re an aspiring young terrorist who wants to prey upon your Jewish classmates, you’re going home. We’re going to arrest your … tail,” Johnson concluded after a pause. “And we’re going to send you home where you belong. This is just getting started.”
The Speaker’s colorful language drew a few chuckles from the press corps, but the underlying message was deadly serious. The days of foreign nationals using American educational opportunities as a platform to promote terrorist organizations appear to be numbered.
Checking Out of Hotel America
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has announced a broader policy initiative to strip visas and green cards from anyone participating in activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization. “We will be revoking the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in America so they can be deported,” Rubio stated.
This policy shift represents a fundamental reassertion of American sovereignty. The message is clear: a visa is a privilege, not a right, and that privilege can be revoked when abused.
What makes the case particularly striking is the explicit goals of the organizations Khalil represents. The Columbia University Apartheid Divest coalition, of which Khalil is a member, has openly acknowledged fighting for the “total eradication of Western civilization” – the very civilization that built and maintains the prestigious university they attend.
The irony of enjoying the benefits of Western education while advocating for its destruction appears lost on these activists. But it wasn’t lost on the Trump administration, which has decided that such fundamental ingratitude deserves a one-way ticket home.
Key Takeaways:
- Trump has begun deporting foreign Hamas supporters from American campuses, declaring bluntly: “Get them the hell out.”
- Speaker Johnson backed the president’s stance saying, “We’re sending you home where you belong.”
- The administration is implementing a broader policy to revoke visas from anyone supporting terrorist organizations on American soil.
Sources: Daily Wire, Daily Wire
