'Shouldn't We Be Deporting These Students?': Hawley Questions Witness About Non-Citizen Protesters

thank you Senator Senator Holly thank you very much Mr. President thank you to all the

witness

es for being here U Mr. PCO if I could start with you your organization in the dream. In the US, you support undocumented youth for college and career success. Overall, am I doing it right? That is correct and among the things it does is provide scholarships to these undocumented

students

. scholarships just to be clear, right, okay, I understand you, can you tell me? Maybe you know the answer to this question, maybe you don't. Do you know if any of the

students

to whom your organization has awarded a university scholarship are currently participating? of the camps on any of these college campuses like the image you see behind me.

I'm sure we've all seen these videos. You know, you don't know, um, what's up, do you know if any of the students that you gave scholarships to have physically threatened Jewish students on campus? I don't know, that's why I ask. NBC News just reported and I'm just going to quote the article now, quote Colombia, which is Columbia University, a student from Colombia who only provided her initials because she is an undocumented immigrant and fears being deported, said last week that spent hours a day at the camp, this would be illegal. camp which is a violation of the law as well as student and campus policy, I spent hours a day at the camp, I am quoting this even before University officials threatened to suspend those students, article continues, she joined this, uh, uh, this student joined a supply group. platoon which is a subgroup made up of quote-unquote pro-Palestinian campus organizers, let me go over some of the things that these students in the camps say, of course, we often don't know who these students are, they're giving away their identities.

This is what I'm going to read to you now and I'm just warning people that this is not a nice thing to do, but these are the facts and we have to tell the truth. This is from last night at George Washington University here in this city. The students in the camp projected images of the United States flag being burned with the graphics on various buildings. Gaza lights the spark that will set the Empire on fire. They projected the following: long live the innate student, down with the settler state that would be the state of Israel I guess glory to the martyrs of Palestine is a jihadist slogan stained with the blood of 44,000 Palestinians which was last night in GW also in GW they are now calling for the beheading of this student camp beheading beheading of people who support the state of Israel , including the holding of a popular court where they are putting several members of their own board of directors on trial, in quotes, and asking for a guillotine.

Here are the students at Columbia University on April 20, 2024. This is all public record. I'm reading this. Now this is on uh, I guess it's Not 100, not 1,000, but 10,000. times October 7th will be every day for you October 7th this is for Jewish students it will be every day for you end of quote I guess my question is M peo and for anyone else on the panel we

shouldn

't be

deporting

either to these students if we have undocumented students who are here in the country illegally and who are violating the law, let's be clear here, this is a violation of the law and if they are also deliberately inciting the persecution of a person because of their race, which surely calls for the murder of Jews,

shouldn

't we deport them?

Does anyone believe that we should not deport these students who are here illegally? Mr. Senator, we expect a lot from our academics and The academics and students that I know love this country, respect this country and love and enrich not only the campuses but also this country which is fantastic and I hope and I bet that none of the people you patronize be a part of This, uh, and I certainly hope that's the case, but I was wondering if there is anyone on the panel who thinks that we should not deport students who are here legally and who are participating in this activity and who are calling for the death of Jewish students. violating the laws of the United States, I mean, shouldn't we deport these people?

Does anyone want to defend him and say no, they shouldn't, they should be here? I think it's indefensible. The record reflects that there is total silence on the part of the panel. I know I also think we should cancel student visas and have asked for this for those who are here from other countries on a visa. I think if they are part of this we should cancel their visas and we should send a clear message, Miss Peko. I think it was you in your opening speech who put it very beautifully and beautifully about how part of what we're talking about here today represents the character of the country.

I think that's very appropriate and we need to send a message about this activity, not just about the invasion and destruction of buildings which is bad, which is illegal, but also about threats of violence and in some cases direct acts of violence. against Jewish students we should send a moral message that if you do that and you are here illegally you should be deported if you were here on a student visa you should cancel your visa this is the United States of America and we are not going to allow it and I just hope we can speak with one moral voice on this issue thank you sir president Senator White House thank you president um