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Alien Hamas Supporters

Does federal immigration law generally allow aliens who support Hamas to be in the United States?

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Federal immigration law explicitly prohibits any alien who “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization” from being in the United States. Since 1997 during the Clinton administration, the U.S. State Department has designated Hamas as a terrorist organization, but the Biden administration refused to take a position on whether aliens who support Hamas should be deported. In contrast, the Trump administration has enacted policies to enforce “all relevant immigration laws to the maximum degree, to protect the homeland from extremists and terrorist aliens, including those who support antisemitic terrorism, violent antisemitic ideologies and antisemitic terrorist organizations such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, or Ansar Allah aka: the Houthis’.”




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