Senator Marco Rubio is trying to expedite a resolution to revoke visas for foreign citizens living in the United States who support the terrorist group Hamas or its allies.
Rubio (R-Fla.) plans to seek unanimous consent in the Senate for approval of the resolution, which would ask President Biden to carry out deportations, Fox News reported.
Specifically, the resolution calls for expelling “any foreign national who has endorsed or supported the terrorist activities of Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah” and other groups.
“The United States is the most generous nation in the world, but we cannot allow foreign citizens who support terrorist groups like Hamas and march in our streets calling for an ‘intifada’ to enter or remain in our country,” Rubio told the outlet.
Its resolution noted that Hamas “terrorists operated death squads tasked with exterminating Jews, as well as hostage squads tasked with kidnapping Jews for ransom, propaganda, and torture.”
Marco Rubio argued that the United States cannot allow supporters of terrorists to remain in the United States.Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA
As vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Rubio is widely considered one of the Republican Party’s leading foreign policy voices.
Other Republicans have expressed similar sentiments.
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas on Monday calling for the deportation of foreigners in the United States who support Hamas.
The Florida senator has openly supported Israel.AP
“I am writing to urge you to immediately deport any foreign national, including and especially any foreign national on a student visa, who has expressed support for Hamas and its murderous attacks against Israel,” Cotton wrote.
“These fifth columnists have no place in America.”
Former President Donald Trump on Monday also called for a “strong ideological assessment of all immigrants” in a renewed speech in favor of a travel ban.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited the Middle East to hold talks with leaders of key allies.AP
But there have been concerns that such a policy would have unintended consequences.
“I simply do not trust the federal government to create and administer an ‘ideological test’ to prevent terrorism,” said Christina Pushaw, rapid response director for Ron DeSantis’ campaign. published in X Tuesday.
“It would probably end up being used against conservative Americans and anyone who dissents from the narrative. And a terrorist who wants to come here could simply lie about his beliefs.”
Rubio and Cotton’s initiative follows widespread pro-Hamas demonstrations in the United States following the October 7 jihadist attack on southern Israel.
“We, the undersigned student organizations, hold the Israeli regime fully responsible for all the violence that is unfolding,” reads a letter signed by more than 30 Harvard University student organizations last week.
The letter maintained that the Hamas attack “did not occur in a vacuum” and that Israel imposed an “open-air prison for more than two decades” on Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip.
The Hamas attack killed more than 1,300 people in Israel, including at least 30 Americans.
Another 13 American citizens are missing and Hamas is confirmed to be holding some hostage in Gaza.
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