Trump’s decree silences the way for the ‘Muslim ban’, aiming for failing students | Muslim Bansko news

Washington, DC – Proponents of civic rights in the United States raise alarm for the Directive signed by the President Donald Trump which they say lays the foundation for another ban on travel directed to countries with a Muslim majority.

The Executive orderPublished on Monday, it could also be used to target foreign nationals who are already legal in the US and the breakdown of international students who advocate the rights of Palestinians, experts say.

Deepa Alagesan, a lawyer in the International Refugee (IRAP) Assistance project, a advocate group, said the new Regulation “Bigger and Gora” from the “xenophobic” ban on the trip that Trump has imposed on a few a country with a Muslim majority 2017 during his first term.

“The worst part of this is now that it is not only to be banned from people outside the US to enter the US, but to use these same reasons as the basis for ejecting people from the US,” Alaysan told Al Jazeera.

The new command points to the administration officials to compile a list of nations “for which the information on checks and checks are so flawed to justify a partial or complete suspension of nationals from these countries.”

Yet it goes on. Calls to determine the number of citizens who entered the US from these countries since 2021 – during President Joe Biden – and collecting “relevant” information about their “deeds and activities”.

The White House then orders “emergency steps” for the deportation of foreign nationals from these countries “whenever information is detected that would support the exclusion or removal.”

Trump’s Executive Regulation also says that the administration must ensure that foreign nationals, including those in the US, “have no enemy attitudes” towards US citizens, culture or government and “do not advocate, help or support marked foreign terrorists”.

Proponents call the command ‘terrible’

Alagesan warned that a decree, called “the protection of the United States from foreign terrorists and other threats to national and public security,” could do more damage immigrant families From the 2017 travel limit, known under the common name “Muslim Bans”.

She said that the indefinite language of the command was “scary” because it seems that US agencies give wide authority to recommend actions against people that administration wants to target.

“At its core, it’s just another way to keep people out there Get people outTo break down families, to encourage fear, to ensure that people know that they are not welcome and that the government will use their force against them, ”Alaysan told Al Jazeera.

Other advocacy groups also condemned the order since its publication.

The US-Arack Committee against Discrimination (ADC) said the decree goes beyond the “Muslim Business” from 2017. Given the Government “broader freedom to use ideological exclusion” to deny visas and removal of people from the US.

“ADC urges Trump’s administration to stop stigmatizing and targeting the entire community, which only sows divisions,” the group said in a statement.

“American promise freedom of speech And expression – the principle that President Trump himself has long emphasized – now stands in a sharp opposite with his new executive decree. “

The Muslim Public Affairs Council also warned in a statement that enhancing measures of check for certain countries risk “functioning as a de facto Muslim ban under the guise of security protocol.”

Maryam Jamshidi, a professor at the Colorado University Faculty of Law, said that the command seemed to revive travel prohibition from Trump’s first term, while pushing the right -wing program in broader cultural wars.

Parts of the decrees are also particularly focused on Palestinians and Supporters of the Palestinians’ rightsJamshidi added.

“The right is very invested in the continuation of this idea that foreigners, people who are blacks, brown, Muslims – not really white Judeo -Christians, in fact – threaten ‘real Americans’.”

‘The ugliest possible action’

In 2018. Several US media reported about it Trump told associates He should now receive more immigrants from a place like Norway, not people with Haiti, El Salvador and African countries, which he called “is *** ni countries.”

Many right -wing politicians – including the current Trump vice president, JD Vance – accepted the conspiracy theory of a “great replacement”, which claims that there is an attempt to replace the native Americans with immigrants.

Trump’s recent order warns against foreign nationals in the US who want to undermine or replace American culture.

However, experts say it is unlikely to be used as a mass deportation vehicle.

“Gives marble commands to agencies to use basically all legal frameworks and holes in the law to take the ugliest possible action to remove people who president He decided not to want to here, “Alaysan said.

“Nevertheless, there are still laws that limit the basics on the basis of which one can be distant, and there is also protection available to people who are in the deportation process.”

Jamshidi also said that it was not clear how the order would relate to people’s deportation, noting that it was not determined whether the cited immigration law gave the authority to the administration to remove foreign citizens.

The decree relies on the part of the Law on Immigration and Citizenship, which gives the President the authority to limit the entry to the US for “any class of foreigners” – but not to distance the people who are already here.

“This is probably not a general accusation of deportation,” Jamshidi said.

But she warned that the command could lead to further control of people from these countries and distract political activities – especially Palestinian solidarity – which could be considered as a violation of the administration guidelines.

Efforts to deport student activists

The command points to US officials to make recommendations for “protecting” citizens from foreign nationals “who preach or invite the sectasic violence, the demolition or replacement of the culture on which our Constitutional Republic rests, or to help, advocate or support foreign terrorists.”

Jamshidi said that language “is certainly related to foreign nationals, including foreign students participating in Palestine Company.”

In addition to the Pro-Israeli politicians who often call campus activists “Pro-Hamasovci”, Jamshidi said Trump’s appearance could be used to target the advocates of the Palestinians who are in the US with student visas.

Both Trump and State Secretary Marko Rubio They have already called for international students’ deportation.

While Palestinian protests of solidarity overwhelmed universities in the country After the outbreak of the Gaza war, the supporters of Israel, especially Republicans, painted student protesters as a threat of campus safety.

Rubio sent a letter to Senate Biden’s administration In October 2023, calling for the removal of international students who participated in the Palestinians’ support protests.

The letter withdrew parallels between student protesters and attackers on September 11th. The “learned lessons learned on September 11, 2001, when terrorists, many of whom were studying in the United States or expired their visas, performed the most deadly attack on US soil.”

“Unfortunately, twenty -two years later, our country witnesses the public speeches of the sympathizers of terrorists who go out to the streets and approve of Hamas’s brutal attacks on the state of Israel,” the letter said.

The Republican Party platform of 2024 also calls for the deportation of “Pro-Hamas radicals” to make the university campuses “safe and patriotic” again.

‘Wider implications’

Smoke Khalidi, director of the Palestine Legal Processing Group, said it was “clear” that Trump’s recent executive decree was made to target the Palestinians’ rights.

She added that, although the decree does not cite Israel, they are trying to portray the criticism of the American Allies not only as anti -Israel or even anti -Semitic, but as “non -American”.

“We need to associate this with this order with a wider ideological imposition that happens and part of the greater cleansing that Trump seems to be implemented,” Khalida told Al Jazeera.

She said that Trump’s administration seeks to use a wide discretion in the immigration law to overcome the Palestinians’ rights for their views and bypass the rights to freedom of speech.

“They really paint a picture of what is acceptable and what is not; What is American, which is not; What is patriotic and what is not, ”Khalidi told Al Jazeera.

Critics say that the important line is that, although Trump’s first “Muslim ban” was focused on passengers from several majority Muslim countries, this command has far -reaching consequences, including what it means for to be an American.

For example, the decree calls for measures that ensure the “correct assimilation” of immigrants and “promoting a unique American identity”.

Jamshidi said the command had “wider implications for all kinds of groups from initial repetitions of Muslim ban.”

“It’s another salvo in the cultural wars of the right,” she told Al Jazeera.