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Thursday, Aug. 15, 2024

Did Donald Trump promise to remove foreign student protesters from the US?

Tom Kertscher, Wisconsin Watch

yes

Referring to protests on U.S. college campuses, former President Donald Trump said May 11, 2024:

"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.”

Speaking May 14, Trump said, according to The Washington Post:

“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign students. As soon as they hear that, they’re going to behave.”

Last October, Trump pledged to deport “radical anti-American and antisemitic foreigners” enrolled in U.S. colleges and foreign students who attend pro-Hamas protests.

Vice President Kamala Harris, speaking Aug. 7, 2024, in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, said Trump vowed to “round up peaceful protesters and throw them out of our country.”

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