Student protesters could be in the crossfire of the Trump administration’s crackdown on colleges, with activists increasingly concerned about freedom of speech for pro-Palestinian advocates.

Those on campus have already seen stricter rules around demonstrations this academic year, but President-elect Trump, as a candidate, threatened protesters with everything from military action to deportation.

“While there has already been harsh crackdowns and repression across the country under the Biden administration, there is concern of a Trump administration ramping up and taking even more extreme unlawful and unconstitutional crackdowns on student protesters who speak out against U.S. support for Israel’s genocide of Palestine,” said Amr Shabaik, legal director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in California.

Trump has repeatedly floated deportation as a punitive tool, threatening to take away the visas from international students.

“One thing I do is, any student that protests, I throw them out of the country. You know, there are a lot of foreign........

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