Alan Dershowitz Tells Harris Faulkner If Trump Student Visa Pause Is Legal

Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz told Fox News host Harris Faulkner Wednesday on “The Faulkner Focus” a visa pause was “perfectly permissible,” saying the U.S. has “the right to know” who enters the country.

The Trump administration announced Tuesday it was pausing new student visa interviews to expand vetting of social media accounts. Faulkner noted the “lawfare” being waged against Trump administration policies, and asked if the new procedures would hold up in court after Dershowitz described deportation as a tool to prevent violence.

“Legally, it’s perfectly permissible,” Dershowitz said after he described the rise of antisemitism at Harvard. “The administration has the right to determine who comes into the country. Congress has some power, but the branch that has the least amount of power over this issue is the judiciary, which is taking all the power now and we have the right to know who comes into this country. There is no First Amendment right to come into the country and preach anti-American, anti-Semitic.”

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“From the beginning of time, countries have deported, exiled, made decisions about who stays in the country and who doesn’t,” Dershowitz continued. “What we’re seeing going on in the college campuses today, two kids killed in Washington, D.C last week, two wonderful young people, I predicted that shooting in my book ‘The Preventive State,’ I absolutely predicted it. I said based on my representation over the years of radicals, some of whom become murderers, when you start protesting in a violent way, breaking windows and harassing people and shoving people, the step toward planting a bomb or getting a gun is a short step.”

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