Candidates target universities amid rising antisemitism
Scott and DeSantis threatened to deport students who voice support for Hamas as experts have said antisemitism is on the rise.
"To every student who've come to our country on a visa to a college campus, your visa is a privilege, not a right," Scott said. "To all the students on visas who are encouraging Jewish genocide, I would deport you from those campuses."
"I was the first presidential candidate to say, 'If you are here on a student visa as a foreign national, you're making common cause with Hamas, I'm canceling your visa, and I'm sending you home, no questions asked,'" DeSantis said.
Haley also went after college administrators for what she said was insufficient action to protect Jewish students.
"No person should ever feel in danger like this. And this is what I would say about our college presidents, is if the KKK were doing this, every college president would be up in arms."
Some of the demonstrations seen in the U.S. have been in support of the Palestinian people living in the Gaza and West Bank territories. U.S. officials have repeatedly said that the terror group Hamas is not representative of all Palestinians.
-ABC News' Tal Axelrod