“Nobody’s looking to deport somebody who is legal"
Ross Glick, executive director of Betar Zionist movement US said,
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"A citizen has rights, no doubt Free speech”
“But a foreign student, I don’t know of a country where you can as a foreigner, participate in protests that are against the government”
(The Supreme Court has generally held that foreigners on American soil are entitled to at least some First Amendment protections)
The question of deporting non-citizen anti-Israel students was already on the radar last spring
The Jewish president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sally Kornbluth was heavily criticized by some pro-Israel voices after she declined to suspend foreign-born protesters for fear their visas would be jeopardized
Now, some Jewish groups want to see the executive order applied more widely, beyond the colleges and universities where the federal government has sway because of the funding it supplies
