President Trump's executive order targets antisemitism on college campuses and threatens to cancel visas of pro-Palestinian international students. Responses vary among California universities, with leaders emphasizing adherence to laws while balancing concerns over free speech. Some groups welcome the order as an acknowledgment of antisemitism, while critics view the actions as authoritarian. The order directs federal agencies to create guidelines for monitoring student activities linked to potential visa revocations, highlighting the tension between national security and civil liberties on campus.
The order calls on the federal government to 'prosecute, remove, or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful antisemitic harassment and violence' on college campuses.
A pro-Palestinian UCLA faculty representative described the threats in the order as 'authoritarianism, plain and simple.'
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