Rights groups and legal scholars say the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges
A pro-Palestinian demonstrator uses a megaphone at Columbia University in New York, on the one-year anniversary of Hamas's Oct. 7 attack.U.S. President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday to combat antisemitism and pledged to deport non-citizen college students and others who took part in pro-Palestinian protests.
Rights groups and legal scholars said the new measure would violate constitutional free speech rights and would likely draw legal challenges. The Hamas attacks and the subsequent Israeli assault on the Palestinian coastal enclave of Gaza led to several months of pro-Palestinian protests that roiled U.S. college campuses. Civil rights groups documented a surge in hate crimes and incidents directed at Jews, Muslims, Arabs and other people of Middle Eastern descent.
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