The patriotic tenor surrounding this week’s arrival of several dozen Afrikaners to the United States was tempered by a cohort of liberals who predictably seized on the moment to criticize the Trump administration for carving out special refugee status for white South Africans while blocking the admission of unvetted migrants from other parts of the globe.
Yet studies suggest that President Donald Trump’s quick success in tightening our nation’s immigration laws sits well with many Americans, who welcome the government’s tough approach to border security.
By shutting out illegal migrants and boosting the vetting process for foreigners who want to come to the United States legally, the Trump administration’s immigration measures protect Americans and preserve the providential Judeo-Christian spirit of our country.
Recent moves to deport and revoke the visas of foreigners whose affinity lies with anti-American and antisemitic terrorist groups, rather than with their host country, reflect sensible and uncomplicated avenues through which Trump is flexing his authority to secure our nation.
While good for America, the administration’s approach to immigration reform represents an essential tool for confronting antisemitism.
The government’s commitment to deporting Jew-hating noncitizen activists, coupled with implementing new regulations that include monitoring the social-media habits of immigrants to check for antisemitic activity, are common-sense policies that safeguard the U.S. Jewish community and ensure that America’s character is not reshaped into a nation that accommodates radical anti-Jewish beliefs.
That’s why the recent decision by “mainstream” Jewish groups to publicly criticize Trump’s efforts to strip antisemitic noncitizens like Syria-born Columbia University grad and left-wing darling Mahmoud Khalil of their legal resident status damages the very interests they were tasked to uphold.
Along with a coterie of mostly non-Orthodox Jewish clergy signing onto an April letter claiming that Trump’s detention of specific students is “capitalizing on Jewish fear to justify oppressive policies,” prominent groups, such as the Anti-Defamation League, the American Jewish Committee and Hillel International, are adopting similar squeamish positions.
AJC’s action plan for university administrators on confronting antisemitism resembles a Democratic Party playbook that encourages school leaders to examine “the interlocking histories of various hatreds, including antisemitism, anti-black racism, homophobia and Islamophobia.”
These institutions’ qualifying statements of Jewish solidarity with calls of concern for Jew-hating immigrants are not peddling tolerance; They’re projecting stupidity.
Douglas Murray, U.K.-born senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and Canadian professor Gad Saad have been instrumental in exposing the West to the dangers associated with uncontrolled immigration.
In Western Europe and Canada, antisemitic attacks against Jews have risen in tandem with a massive influx of immigrants from mainly majority Muslim nations.
Increasingly, these new arrivals still harbor prejudices from home and resist integrating into their host country’s cultural and social fabric.
For a community that prides itself on values wedded to acceptance, conveying disapproval over current immigration levels and discussing the ideological leanings of new arrivals to the United States discomfits many Jewish Americans.
With that said, averting the same fate as European Jewry requires sharpening our agenda and adapting to modern-day realities.
An ADL report found that last year was the highest number on record for antisemitic incidents in the United States since the group began tabulating 46 years ago.
According to the study, in 2024, anti-Jewish hate crimes increased by “344 percent” from the previous five years and jumped a staggering “893 percent” over the last 10 years.
While under-discussed among liberal-leaning elites, the rise in violence and harassment against American Jews tracks with the U.S. foreign-born population reaching record highs.
In March, the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) noted that the government’s latest population survey found that illegal and legal immigrants comprise almost 16% of the total U.S. population, the highest in history, with the “8.3 million increase in the last four years being larger than the growth of the preceding 12 years.”
Moreover, American universities at the epicenter of antisemitic unrest, such as Columbia University, boast a high share of foreign students.
As a deeply patriotic American who arrived in the United States as a young girl, I understand that our country would not be the vibrant and prosperous democracy it is today without robust immigration.
Still, an increasing swath of foreigners seeking the privilege of immigrating to the United States do not share Americans’ adherence to religious liberty and civic dialogue.
The pro-Hamas protests unfolding across the country confirm that protectionist policies are required to stop unsavory actors with bad intentions from entering our shores.
The Trump administration’s restrained approach to immigration is directly tied to successfully confronting antisemitic threats and ultimately advances a safe and secure future for all citizens, especially Jewish Americans.