Trump supporters and fellow Republicans are signaling a potential crackdown on protests, activists, and organizations aligned with them if Trump returns to the White House. Legal measures such as deporting foreign students involved in pro-Hamas activities or unauthorized protests are being highlighted as possible actions.
Trump allies and other Republicans have been giving a preview of what could happen to protests, protesters and aligned groups once the new administration begins., and now that Donald Trump is returning to the White House they warn that protest leaders, activists and those who help them raise money could face an onslaught of federal investigations and possible indictments.
“Trying to predict what Trump will do is a fool’s errand. We have to be prepared for the most extreme version of what he’s threatened,” said Ben Wizner, the director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Speech, Privacy and Technology Project. “We have to take him both literally and seriously.
Edward Ahmed Mitchell, CAIR’s deputy executive director, argued that the Biden administration failed to enforce FARA against leaders of pro-Israel groups. Mitchell said both Trump and President Joe Biden single out pro-Palestinian activists with either a lack of enforcement or with too much enforcement.
“If there’s one thing the First Amendment protects, it’s the right of Americans to criticize their own government’s policies,” said Jameel Jaffer, the Knight Institute’s executive director.
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