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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Wednesday instructing federal agencies to lay the foundations to deport international students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

While the order broadly directs agencies to find ways to combat antisemitism, a fact sheet on the order acquired by Reuters calls for the deportation of non-citizen college students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests. It also calls for an investigation into pro-Hamas graffiti and intimidation on college campuses.

According to the order, agency and department leaders will have 60 days to outline plans to combat anti-semitism on college campuses, while the fact sheet promises “immediate action” by the Justice Department to prosecute “terroristic threats, arson, vandalism and violence against American Jews.”

“To all the resident aliens who joined in the pro-jihadist protests, we put you on notice: come 2025, we will find you, and we will deport you,” Trump wrote in the fact sheet to the executive order. “I will also quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before.” 

In total, 46 students were arrested during the pro-Palestinian protests on Yale’s campus last spring for various charges that included criminal trespassing, disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. Several cases were subsequently resolved, and 27 cases were dismissed in a court hearing on Oct. 31.

At least two international students were arrested during the pro-Palestinian protests at Yale. One international student received 40 hours of community service in the October hearing.

When reached by the News for comment, the University spokesperson referred to a statement released on Jan. 28 by University President Maurie McInnis and Provost Scott Strobel on potential changes coming from the federal government. 

On the campaign trail, Trump threatened to deport international students who participated in pro-Palestinian protests.

In an earlier executive order, Trump instructed agencies to find ways to “ensure that admitted aliens and aliens otherwise already present in the United States do not … support designated foreign terrorists,” but did not single out pro-Palestinian college students.

In October, the Republican-led U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce published a report that claimed administrators at Yale “overwhelmingly failed to impose meaningful discipline for those who engaged in antisemitic conduct.”

Trump’s second term began on Jan. 20.