Congress has provided the Department of Homeland Security with powerful tools to remove noncitizen immigrants who support terrorism or incite genocide.

The Biden administration refused to use these tools. Fortunately, the Trump administration thinks differently.

Hamas’s meticulously planned October 2023 massacre of Israeli civilians resulted, in then-President Biden’s words, in “the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust,” with “more than 1,000 civilians slaughtered,” “parents butchered using their bodies to try to protect their children.” Biden concluded that Hamas’s act of “pure, unadulterated evil” had “reminded us all” that “silence is complicity.”

What, then, should we call not silence, but vocal celebration of Hamas’s mass murder? As Hamas would gladly kill every Jew in Israel if it had the opportunity, this is akin to the celebration of genocide.

Much of this celebration took place on Americans college campuses by foreign students during demonstrations apparently catalyzed by campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine. The Anti-Defamation League reported that the group’s chapters giddily celebrated the massacres.

The group's Tufts University chapter proclaimed that “footage of liberation fighters from Gaza paragliding into occupied territory [i.e. Israel] has especially shown the creativity necessary to take back stolen land.” The Bard University chapter proclaimed that “Liberation ... requires confrontation by any means necessary. From the river to the sea, we will continue to fight.” And last October, Swarthmore's chapter wrote, “Happy October 7th everyone! In honor of this glorious day and all our martyred........

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