Another Trump order targets foreign nationals who ‘support designated terrorists’

An executive order signed by US President Donald Trump appears to target, among others, foreign nationals participating in anti-Israel protests that have swept throughout the country since Hamas’s October 7 onslaught.

The Executive Order Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Threats states that the government must be “vigilant” in issuing visas to foreign nationals and ensure that those approved “do not intend to harm Americans or our national interests.”

The order requires the US government to ensure that foreign nationals “not bear hostile attitudes toward its citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles, and do not advocate for, aid, or support designated foreign terrorists and other threats to our national security.”

Trump campaigned on cracking down on the anti-Israel protests, particularly those on college campuses, but it is not yet clear how exactly he’ll go about doing it, given free speech laws in the US.