HAMAS-linked CAIR releases Guide for anti-Semitic, pro-Hamas, foreign student campus agitators who want to avoid arrest and deportation

The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is advising non-citizen Muslims to take “proactive steps”—like using a burner phone—to avoid arrest/deportation after traveling abroad as the Trump Administration cracks down on foreigners who support Islamic terrorism. Think of it as CAIR’s Handy-Dandy Guide for Campus Agitators Who Want to Escape Arrest and Deportation.

Red State (h/t Marvin W) CAIR links to a guide called ‘Travel and Free Speech Guidance During the Trump Administration’ directed at “non-citizens,” campus agitators and other troublemakers of the antisemitic kind on how to avoid being detained and deported/repatriated by the Trump administration. They very helpfully offer separate guidance for those who are here legally and those who may be visa or green card deficient.

There also was a link to the recording of a recent CAIR seminar, which doubled as a Ramadan fundraiser, that was full of handy-dandy tips for those who mistake being offered the privilege of studying in the United States for an open invitation to rampage, always while masked, across college campuses while calling for the wholesale elimination of the state of Israel. Israel is also known as one of the U.S.’s closest allies, which only seems to embolden the agitators.

Free Beacon During the anti-Israel CAIR’s annual Ramadan fundraiser webinar on Sunday, which the Washington Free Beacon attended, CAIR attorneys and policy experts told the 1,300 attendees that visa and green card holders should delete apps and pictures from their phones before returning to the United States. For foreign citizens who remain in America, the speakers recommended taking a back seat at protests for the time being. The CAIR crew also said President Donald Trump’s order to remove foreigners who pose terror threats targeted the Islamic community, with one calling it a “pre-Muslim ban.”

“Delete some of the apps, some pictures you have on your phone. Things that you think are maybe innocent, but in this day and age, with the Mahmoud Khalil’s case [sic], what are they charging with all this—it’s not my job as an immigration attorney to make the community fearful, but be smart about what we’re doing,” said Spojmie Nasiri, an immigration attorney on CAIR’s National Board of Directors.

“Maybe buy a burner phone, or maybe have a backup phone,” she added. Nasiri also warned that non-citizens’ phones are subject to searches after traveling abroad and recommended setting up two-factor authentication and turning off facial recognition.

Since taking office, Trump has pursued his campaign promise to deport pro-Hamas foreigners, with the State Department revoking a number of visas this month.

Among them was Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student and vocal pro-Hamas activist, whom federal authorities arrested after his visa and green card were canceled.

Momodou Taal, a Cornell University graduate student who has celebrated Hamas’s Oct. 7 attacks, similarly had his visa revoked last week.

And although Nasiri didn’t point to a specific example, her guidance echoes the case of Rasha Alawieh, a Brown University assistant professor of medicine. Earlier this month, Alawieh, an H-1B visa holder, was deported after Customs and Border Protection agents discovered “sympathetic photos and videos” of prominent Hezbollah terrorist figures in the deleted items folder of her cell phone.

She was traveling back to the United States after attending the funeral in Lebanon of slain Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by the Israeli Air Force.

Nasrallah’s funeral now:

“Death to America, Death to Israel,” pic.twitter.com/nrr2fnS1Hc

— Open Source Intel (@Osint613) February 23, 2025

CAIR has a long history of pushing anti-Semitic positions, which have been underscored since Hamas’s Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel. Two days after the assault, CAIR blamed Israel for provoking the Hamas attack. The group urged lawmakers to “address [the] root cause of Mideast violence,” which it attributed to the “Israeli government’s apartheid policies.”

Weeks later, CAIR executive director Nihad Awad said he was “happy to see” Hamas kill Jews.

In 1993, meanwhile, Awad participated in a secret meeting that was wiretapped by the FBI. During that gathering, participants reportedly discussed ways to support Hamas.

More recently, CAIR urged the Trump administration on March 16 to immediately readmit Alawieh into the U.S. and argued that her deportation “reinforces suspicion that our immigration system is turning into an anti-Muslim, white supremacist institution.”

The group is also suing Columbia University on behalf of Khalil to prevent the Ivy League institution from complying with a request by the House Committee on Education and the Workforce for Columbia to turn over student data about disciplinary actions.