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The latest headlines from our reporters across the US sent straight to your inbox each weekday Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US Your briefing on the latest headlines from across the US SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. The order also empowers colleges and universities to “monitor for and report activities” by “alien students and staff” for “investigations and, if warranted, actions to remove such aliens.” Civil rights advocates warned that Trump’s antisemitism policy is likely unconstitutional and unfairly paints largely peaceful student protesters as antisemitic terrorist sympathizers. “So is the administration’s apparent threat to deport any foreign student who merely participated in anti-genocide protests.” open image in gallery Trump order adds to tense atmosphere on campus around Israel protests, which were met with heavy police response throughout 2023 and 2024 “The First Amendment protects everyone in the United States, including foreign citizens studying at American universities,” Carrie DeCell, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, told The Times of Israel. Trump has urged that Palestinians be “cleaned out” of Gaza, which he callously characterized as a “demolition site.” His real-estate developer son-in-law Jared Kushner remarked last March that Gaza’s “waterfront property” could “be very valuable,” and also suggested civilians be moved out as the strip is “cleaned up.” As The Independent has reported, campus protesters were met with a heavily armed police response, doxxing from outside groups, and violence from masked vigilantes. General Mark Milley, who served as Trump’s chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said last year that Trump is “fascist to the core.” In remarks from Air Force One on Sunday, Trump said he wants Egypt and Jordan to “take” the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in Gaza who have been displaced by Israel’s bombardments, and “clean out” the area — alarming human rights groups who have warned that the president’s remarks amount to an endorsement of ethnic cleansing.