Trump visa policy ‘far more restrained’ than Biden policy targeting Israelis that flew under the radar: expert

A long time before Democrats and liberal activists, Trump, accused the rights of visas in the United States, Biden Administration A legal expert told Fox News Digital,,

“One of them is a valid judgment,” explained by a legal expert and older colleague at the Margaret Thatcher Center at the Heritage Foundation, Eugene Conorovic, on the president. Donald Trump Restrictions and cancellation of visas belonging to Pro-hamas students in the United States

“The other was only using the visa system to punish the enemies of the political individual,” he followed the Biden 2023 visa policy.

The Trump administration is in the midst of work to cancel visas and green cards who belong to students who support students in the United States who participated in the widespread protests against Israel and riots that rocked college universities during the past academic year. This effort was met with a violent reaction from the Democrats who say Trump is attacking the first amendment rights of individuals who protested Israel.

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A long time before Democrats and liberal activists, Trump, accused the rights of Al -Hamas visa owners in the United States, the Biden administration offered the policy of re -evaluation in the visa targeting the Israelis. (Getty Images)

Kontorovich spoke to Fox News Digital Wednesday in an interview via a phone where he made it clear that Trump’s actions are not only within his legal limits, but also “much more than” “political visa” policies, including Biden’s policy that restricts the Israelis.

The Biden Administration announced in December 2023, just months after the outbreak of the war in Israel on October 7, 2023, that it will restrict visas on those who believe they have undermined peace and stability in the West Bank. The restriction was part of the Biden administration’s efforts to achieve a two -state solution Peace in Israel and PalestineThe New York Times reported at the time.

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“Today, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is implementing a new policy to restrict the visa targeting individuals who believe that they have participated in undermining peace, security or stability in the West Bank, including by committing violence or taking other unjustified action in order to obtain these basic services and basic necessities,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in a press statement in December 2023. “

A photo taken in the Turmus Ayya village near the city of Ramallah, the nearby Israeli Shelo settlement in the background, is shown in the West Bank occupied on February 18, 2024. (Getty Images)

In February 2024, Biden signed Executive order Imposing penalties on “people who undermine peace, security and stability in the West Bank” where he criticized “extremist settler violence” in the West Bank. According to the matter, their bank accounts were frozen and their credit cards were canceled and restricted to conducting basic life activities.

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The Israeli mobile artillery unit launches a shell from southern Israel towards the Gaza Strip, in a position near the Israel-Gaza border on November 6, 2023. (Owahah Zogenburg/Associated Press)

Contourovic explained that the advertising language was mysterious and allowed the Biden administration to punish individuals who did not agree to the administration’s policies for a two -state solution.

“The executive order for Biden, we can ban people who do not agree with our concept, even if they do not encourage or participate in violent activities. While there is nothing in the United States, he says that the two -state solution is everything and end.”

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A pile of burning trash in Union Square in New York City on Monday, October 7, 2024, on the occasion of one year since October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks on Israel. (Adam Gray in favor of Fox News Digital)

“Half of the members in Congress may not support the two -state solution, while Hamas is foreign terrorism.” “Opposing the two -state solution, not a dedicated terrorist organization. Hamas disappears and rapes people, and they are fighting people. Opponents of the two -state solution do not.”

Despite the alleged political motivation behind this policy, it was within the legal boundaries of Biden, where the presidents enjoy a broad power to refuse to enter foreign citizens.

Konorovich described a visa policy during the Biden era as a “Jewish ban”-which stems from the title of “Islamic ban” of travel ban policies under the Trump administration’s first-as “Israeli Jews on the basis of very common political views among Israeli Jews.”

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International law expert and professor of law in international law, George Masson Antonin, continued that Democrats and active groups did not cool down or speaking against the Biden visa policy at that time, noting that “the Biden administration was doing many bad things for Israel, and this was somewhat at the top of the list” for reprimand.

He added that despite the silence in 2023, the Democrats this year “will go to a man who was working with a group supporting foreign terrorist and fatal terrorist organizations frankly,” referring to a graduate of Colombia University, Mahmoud Khalil, who was a major protest against Hamas on the campus in 2024.

Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil is speaking to the press during the press conference organized by the demonstrators supporting the Palestinians who held a new troop on the campus of the Mournjaids Heights at the University of Colombia in New York City, June 1, 2024. (Selcuk Acar/Anadolu via Getty Images)

“He only shows you the extent of manufacturing this anger,” he said. “Also, what Trump’s do is not a kind of new wild and crazy thing Trump. It is actually more restricted than the insights of the abusive visa policies. They did not get the manufactured anger.”

Democrats and activists have criticized the Trump administration because of his detention in Khalil in his Colombia -owned apartment in Manhattan on March 8. The Ministry of Internal Security said that he had demanded a former postgraduate studies in Colombia, “he led activities to Hamas, a dedicated terrorist organization.”

Khalil helped the anti -Israel protest leadership, which was plagued by the campus in April 2024, including as a negotiator for extremist students on the campus while they were establishing a tent camp and assumed an academic building, Hamilton Hall.

A protester of a supporter of the Palestinian holds a note on the roof of the Hamilton Hall at Columbia University in New York, April 30, 2024. (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

He held the position of leader of a group called Colombia United DiveSter, which demanded that Colombia completely get rid of Israel in the country of the country with Hamas, which started on October 7, 2023. The group said its main goal is to “challenge the generated absorptive violence that was equipped in November 202.

The Ministry of National Security stated in addition to that Khalil “led activities aligned to Hamas, a dedicated terrorist organization.”

The 47th President signed an executive order in January, and the demonstrators supported Hamas in the United States with student visas that they will be deported.

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The demonstrators are gathering in protest inside their camp on the University of Colombia’s campus, on Monday, April 29, 2024, in New York. (Stephen Jermia/Associated Press)

For all the resident foreigners who joined in Protests supporting jihadi, “Come to 2025, we will find you, and Sindchk,” the president said in a realistic newspaper on January 30.

Khalil was born in Syria in 1995 and was in the United States on a green card, according to various reports. Sources at the White House told Fox News on Tuesday that investigators find that investigators find “anti -Semitism and abuser” on Khalil’s accounts on social media in Khalil that there is a potential threat to American national security, as it was reported that the investigators find “anti -Semitic and hate” participation on Khalil’s accounts on social media in Khalil.

Liberal lawmakers and activists described his arrest as an attack on the first amendment, which protects freedom of expression and gathering. However, the administration and legal experts argue that the issue does not focus on the rights of the first amendment, but on national security And immigration.

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Kontorvich explained that the Trump administration does not target students with visas that said “bad or frightening things”, instead the administration targets foreign nationals with suspected relationships The designated terrorism organization.

“It is not as if they just went out and appointed a group they did not like,” he added. “Not like BLM is a terrorist organization.”

The legal researcher also indicated that the Trump administration has probably taken the most difficult issue of cancellation and deportation first. (Chris Klipnis/CNP/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

The legal researcher also indicated that the Trump administration has probably taken the issue of cancellation and deportation the most difficult first, as Khalil holds a green card, which allows permanent residence for foreigners, while visas allow for temporary residence.

“The cancellation of the permanent situation is more difficult than just a visa holder,” he said. “The government will have to show evidence that Hamas support, somewhat, supported explicit violence. What I saw, all this is true, and this may be sufficient to cancel his visa. But by focusing on this, Trump is a supporter of Democrats, and Democrats have admitted mainly that he will be fine.

A senior official at the Foreign Ministry in Fox News said that Khalil is subject to deportation under Article 237 (A) (4) (c) of the Immigration and Nationality Law. A section of the Immigration Law states: “A foreigner has the presence or activities of the United States, the Foreign Minister has reasonable reasons for the belief that it is likely that it has dangerous consequences in foreign policy on the United States.”

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There is no condition that a crime be committed under this section of the law. Instead, it provides extensive power to the Foreign Minister to announce a foreign deportation.