Universities pushed to ‘monitor’ protesters on student visas

Universities in the United States have set up task forces, tightened discipline policies and used surveillance cameras to track protesters’ movements. They have hired private investigators to examine cases of anti-Israel speech and activism. These are just a few of the measures administrators have taken to curb criticisms that they have allowed antisemitism to fester as pro-Palestinian demonstrations spread across campuses during the last academic year, write Sharon Otterman and Anemona Hartocollis for The New York Times.

On Wednesday 29 January, President Donald Trump signed an order meant to push them to do more – to “prosecute, remove or otherwise hold to account the perpetrators of unlawful antisemitic harassment and violence.”

Specifically, it directed several agencies, including the state and education departments, to guide colleges to “report activities by alien students and staff” that could be considered antisemitic or supportive of terrorism, so that those students or staff members could be investigated or deported as non-citizens.
Full report on The New York Times site