Trump vows to strip student visas from 'anti-Semitic foreigners' at US colleges if he wins the 2024 election

• Trump said he would revoke student visas of "anti-Semitic foreigners" if he wins a second term.
• He also said he would not welcome any Gaza refugees into the US.
• The war between Israel and Hamas has prompted calls to get humanitarian aid to Palestinian civilians.

Former President Donald Trump has weighed in on how he will respond to the war between Israel and Hamas should he win a second term.

On Monday, Trump delivered a campaign speech in Iowa and offered no signs of easing up on his immigration policies. Last week, Israel officially declared war against Palestinian militant group Hamas after the group attacked several towns in southern Israel. Thousands of Palestinian and Israeli civilians have died due to Israel and Hamas' military responses, prompting pressure in the US to not only offer aid to Israel, but ensure Palestinian civilians receive assistance, as well.

However, Trump said foreigners in the US who have expressed support for Palestinians and protested Israel over the past week will be deported if he becomes president.

"In the wake of the attacks on Israel, Americans have been disgusted to see the open support for terrorists among the legions of foreign nationals on college campuses. They're teaching your children hate," Trump said during his Iowa remarks. "Under the Trump administration, we will revoke the student visas of radical anti-American and anti-Semitic foreigners at our colleges and universities and we will send them straight back home."

GOP Sen. Marco Rubio also recently called for President Joe Biden to cancel visas for foreigners who have expressed support for Hamas. A president has the authority to revoke a visa for a variety of reasons, including criminal activity or immigrant status violation.

Trump, and other GOP candidates like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, have also said the US will not welcome Palestinian refugees from Gaza into the US if they win in 2024. President Joe Biden's administration has not yet publicly commented on whether it's considering bringing a large number of Gazans into the US at this time. However, it plans to push for Egypt to reopen its border to allow the roughly one million civilians Israel ordered to evacuate Gaza to leave the warzone.

Students on US college campuses have been under heightened scrutiny over their responses to the war. Following the release of a now-deleted letter from dozens of Harvard student groups that blamed Israel for Hamas' attack, billionaire Bill Ackman called for the release of the names of all students who signed the letter so employers wouldn't "inadvertently" hire them. An NYU law student also lost their post-grad job offer over a statement blaming Israel for the Hamas attacks.

Other major donors to Harvard, including former Victoria's Secret CEO Les Wexner, ceased donations to Harvard. Former Utah Governor Jon Hunstman's foundation did the same with the University of Pennsylvania.

Beyond the responses to students' and colleges' reactions to the war, Biden is pushing for Congress to pass an emergency supplemental funding package that would get aid to Israel as soon as possible. Democratic lawmakers are pushing for that package to include humanitarian assistance for Palestinian civilians — but some Republican lawmakers said they would oppose doing so.

"The reality is because Hamas is in control, letting aid into Gaza is resupplying Hamas," GOP Sen. Tom Cotton wrote on X, formerly Twitter, on Tuesday. "In the long run, the best way to aid the Palestinian people is for Hamas to be completely destroyed."

Still, a group of House Democrats introduced a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Israel and Palestine — along with "promptly'" getting aid to Palestinians in Gaza.