The American branch of the global Betar Zionist movement is using facial recognition technology with artificial intelligence to identify foreign students who have attended pro-Palestine protests in hopes that President-elect Donald Trump will deport them when he comes into office.
Ross Glick, the head of Betar’s US branch, said foreign students on visas in the US shouldn’t have the right to free speech.
“Even many of the protesters engaging in peaceful activities are part of a front for groups that are trying to undermine America and Israel,” he said, according to The Times of Israel. “We believe in freedom of speech, but if a foreign student is here on a visa, they don’t have the same rights as others to protest or promote anti-Zionist narratives.”
Glick said Betar has identified dozens of students from Canada, the UK, and several Arab countries that will be reported to the Trump administration. The process involves identifying people through video footage and then looking into them online.
“The next step is waiting until Trump’s inauguration on January 20 to hand over the information,” Glick said.
President Trump has said he would deport foreign students for taking part in pro-Palestine protests, which he and many other Israel supporters have labeled “antisemitic” despite Jewish students and organizations being involved in the demonstrations.
“When I’m president, we will not allow colleges to be taken over by violent radicals,” Trump said at a rally back in May. “If you come here from another country and try to bring jihadism or anti-Americanism or antisemitism to our campuses, we will immediately deport you, you’ll be out of that school.”
Glick said his organization has been working with members of Congress, including Senators Ted Cruz (R-TX) and John Fetterman (D-PA), to ensure protesters are rounded up as soon as Trump comes into office.
Trump has also vowed to crack down on pro-Palestine protests by going after colleges. “Here is what I will do to defeat antisemitism and defend our Jewish citizens in America: My first week back in the Oval Office, my Administration will inform every college president that if you do not end antisemitic propaganda, they will lose their accreditation and federal taxpayer support,” he said in September.
If anyone should be deported it should be Israeli citizens actively subverting the 1st Amendment to the US constitution (which is it should be noted not citizenship-specific.)
Why do these people not live in Israel, if it's so great and in such need? Are they expecting to find the hostages at Michigan State?
Trump does not care about the US constitution. He feels he above the law and that the Supreme Court allows him to break any law as long as he doing it as a Presidential act. So if trump wants to deport them, he will.
Deporting a foreign student on visa for attending a protest rally? Good luck getting a US court to agree to that. That would be tantamount to renouncing everything we've stood for as a Nation for the past 250 years.
A court does not have to agree. Trump will just ordered one of many possible organizations under his command to kick them out. Unless the US Congress removes him as the President, which will not happen, the courts can not stop him. The Supreme Court has already rule that Trump is immune from prosecution for breaking the law as long as he does it as a Presidential act. Trump make it clear he intents to act as a dictator and the people of United State voted to allow that to happen.
(which is it should be noted not citizenship-specific.)
Worth repeating. Over and over.
One can repeat it as much as one wants to. However, it does not matter to Trump.
Dumbocracy?!
;-/
Kakistocracy.
Love the term.
Even Obama killed an American citizen and got lawyers to tell him (and us) that it was all legal and just.
The law is not an obstacle.
I guess Trump wasn't being beholden to his donors in his first term. Turns out he was just genuinely that bad.
In addition to Hanlon's razor: to never attribute malice to that which is adequately explained by stupidity there has to be a Trump's razor: to never assume brilliantly hidden genius to explain obvious stupidity. Or cryptic benevolence in sadistic maliciousness.
Nothing says Merika, then chasing out the vocal enemies of a protected group of people with extra mustard and relish.
The global Betar Zionist movement is an agent of a foreign power.
Stop the Zionist assault on freedom in America.
Trump has to have a US law for doing any deporting…In spite of both houses of congress having RetardiQAns as majority, the law would most likely won't pass…! He certainty cannot deport any US citizen students who make a good potion of the protesters…!
They did pass a law about criticizing Israel as antisemitic. They will round people up as terrorists.
I don't believe deportation was part of it…!
He tried it once. He’ll try again.
"Trump has to have a US law for doing any deporting" That is not the way Trump thinks. He will claim it is a Presidential act and thus he is immune to breaking the law per the Supreme Court.
Immunity from criminal prosecution for doing X is not the same thing as a legal power to actually do X — especially when X requires the active participation of a bunch of other people who enjoy no such immunity.
Nonsense. Because these foreign students are "within the jurisdiction of the US", they are protected by the US constitution. Children born here to such students are therefore US citizens at birth.
That is true, but it will matter with the next President.
“We believe in freedom of speech, but if a foreign student is here on a visa, they don’t have the same rights as others to protest or promote anti-Zionist narratives.” Oh really? Says who? Where is that written?
Either the United States of America stands for the "Freedom of Speech" or it does not. Either we promote our bedrock American values held up for the rest of the World in the US Constitution, or we look like total hypocrites.
And Trump does not care how the USA looks to the rest of the World.
If anyone is illegally in the US then they will be deported; it could be Pro-Palestinians or Zionists, Es macht nichts!
According to the US Constitution (Article I, Section 9; Article V; Amendment 10), it’s impossible to be illegally in the US.
And according to Madison v. Marbury, unconstitutional “laws” are void.
We shall see after January 20th.