GOP Senator urges Biden to deport foreign nationals who support Hamas

Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) believes that all foreign nationals in the United States who support Hamas terrorists should be immediately deported. The Republican senator wrote a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas urging the immediate removal of Hamas sympathizers after the Palestinian terrorist group launched a brutal attack on Israel last week. Hamas is the de facto government of the Palestinian territory of Gaza.

Terrorists from the Sunni Islamic political and military organization rampaged through Israel from Saturday, October 7. The hundreds of deaths that day were the largest single-day murder of Jewish people since the Holocaust. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said this week that 1,400 of its citizens have been killed in the conflict so far, while 120 have been kidnapped by Hamas terrorists. Meanwhile, 30 Americans have been confirmed dead in Israel and 15 are missing – and believed to be being held hostage in Gaza.

“I am writing to urge you to immediately deport any alien – including and especially any alien on a student visa – who has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks on Israel,” Senator Cotton said in his letter to Sec. Mayors. “These fifth columnists don’t belong in the United States,” he added, using a term to describe a group of people who undermine a large group from within — usually for the benefit of whatever enemy.

The carnage of the Israeli people and Palestinians caught in the crossfire of their counterattacks led to widespread protests from those supporting both sides of the struggle and clashes between pro-Israeli and pro-Palestinian groups. Senator Cotton says anyone who supports Hamas terrorists or defends their actions because of the mere existence of the State of Israel should be removed from the country. “Federal law makes clear that any alien who ‘endorses or espouses terrorist activities or persuades others to endorse or support terrorist activities or to support a terrorist organization’ is inadmissible and must be deported,” he wrote.

In particular, the Arkansas lawmaker referred to the removal of anyone who signed or promoted the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee’s letter that Israel’s “apartheid regime is solely to blame” for the gruesome murder and kidnapping of Israelis. “Expeditiously removing and permanently barring from future return any foreign student who signed or approvingly shared the anti-Semitic letter from the Harvard Palestine Solidarity Committee on October 7 would be a good start,” Cotton wrote to Mayorkas. The letter to Mayorkas comes as reports emerge showing an increase in the number of people on the terrorist watch list crossing the southern border illegally.

A fourth Iranian on the list was caught this weekend trying to enter the US via the southern border. Iranians who enter the US illegally are classified as “special interest aliens” because the State Department considers Iran to be a hostile nation that poses a threat to national security. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said last week that Iran was “broadly complicit” in the recent unprecedented attacks on Israel because of Tehran’s military and political support for Hamas.

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