Trump executive order to deport Hamas sympathizers on campuses prompts student newspaper to delete names

President Donald Trump's Jan. 30 enforcement bid to cancel the pupil visas of Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses is being met with resistance.

The editorial committee astatine the Exponent, Purdue University's pupil newspaper, said it "refuses to beryllium enactment to specified a blatant usurpation of the First Amendment rights of perchance hundreds of Purdue students."

"That's why, to support the identities of pro-Palestinian students, we are removing the names, images and likenesses of each specified pupil from our website published since Oct. 7, 2023," the editorial committee wrote connected Feb. 3. "Further, successful aboriginal coverage, nary specified accusation oregon images volition beryllium published online oregon successful people by the Exponent — nary exceptions — until this autocratic onslaught connected escaped code is overturned."

Executive Order 13899 aims to combat the "unprecedented question of vile anti-Semitic discrimination, vandalism, and unit against our citizens, particularly successful our schools and connected our campuses" since Oct. 7, 2023, erstwhile Hamas archetypal attacked Israel, sparking the opening of a 15-month warfare that has near tens of thousands of radical dead.

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The editorial committee astatine the Exponent, Purdue University's pupil newspaper, said it "refuses to beryllium enactment to specified a blatant usurpation of the First Amendment rights of perchance hundreds of Purdue students." (Michael Hickey)

"To each the nonmigratory aliens who joined successful the pro-jihadist protests, we enactment you connected notice: travel 2025, we volition find you, and we volition deport you," the president said successful a Jan. 30 information expanse connected the enforcement order. "I volition besides rapidly cancel the pupil visas of each Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses, which person been infested with radicalism similar ne'er before."

"I volition besides rapidly cancel the pupil visas of each Hamas sympathizers connected assemblage campuses."

Hamas is simply a designated violent organization that the Department of National Intelligence (DNI) describes arsenic "the largest and astir susceptible militant radical successful the Palestinian territories and 1 of the territories’ 2 large governmental parties."

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U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reply questions during a associated property league successful the East Room astatine the White House successful Washington, Feb. 4, 2025. ( Reuters/Leah Millis)

"HAMAS is committed to equipped absorption against Israel and to the instauration of a Palestinian state, and the radical has engaged successful respective rounds of convulsive struggle with Israel," according to DNI. "The astir caller began connected 7 October 2023, erstwhile HAMAS launched a monolithic astonishment onslaught against Israel, sidesplitting astir 1,200 people."

The Exponent's editorial committee said it expects "no distinction" to beryllium made betwixt "'pro-jihadist' and pro-Palestinian" erstwhile it comes to revoking pupil visas.

"Anti-war tin lone present mean ‘pro-Hamas,’" the pupil committee wrote.

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An anti-Israel agitator connected Stanford University’s field connected Friday, April 26, 2024. (Obtained by Fox News Digital)

"Such twisting of connection to beryllium utilized arsenic a limb is contrary to the First Amendment, which gives the Exponent its close to beryllium conscionable arsenic overmuch arsenic it gives the close to students to protestation arsenic they spot fit. It is the sentiment of the Exponent that lasting backmost portion our website is perchance utilized to place the state's enemies would beryllium straight against those principles," the committee continued.

The committee added that pro-Palestine protests astatine Purdue volition proceed into 2025, but the students they interrogation astatine protests "will nary longer person their identities published." 

A pro-Palestinian demonstrator holds a emblem connected the rooftop of Hamilton Hall astatine Columbia University successful New York, connected Tuesday, April 30, 2024.  (Yuki Iwamura/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

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Hamas and Israel's caller ceasefire deal, which paused the deadly war, has led Hamas to merchandise 10 Israeli hostages and 5 Thai nationals abducted connected Oct. 7, 2023, successful speech for Palestinian prisoners and accrued humanitarian assistance into Gaza. Six Americans remain successful Gaza.

More than 46,000 Palestinians died successful the war, fractional of whom are believed to beryllium women and children, though that fig could beryllium higher, according to the Palestinian Health Ministry. More than 90% of the astir 2 cardinal Palestinians surviving successful Gaza were displaced during the war.

Fox News Digital’s Efrat Lachter and The Associated Press contributed to this report.