Deporting Hamas-Supporting Foreign Students Doesn’t Violate the First Amendment

On January 29, President Trump issued an executive order prescribing “additional measures to combat anti-Semitism.” Its “most significant provision,” according to Tal Fortgang, is the requirement that the relevant departments “develop a process that would lead, ‘as appropriate and consistent with applicable law, to investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove’ non-citizens who support terrorism in various ways.” The measure takes aim at foreign students who have been involved in violent or intimidating anti-Israel demonstrations, especially on college campuses.