Biden's DOJ not investigating pro-Hamas agitators holding US visas: report

President Joe Biden's Department of Justice has reportedly issued a "stand-down order" to federal law enforcement and US attorneys to stop investigating Hamas supporters who have US visas for "incitement, violence, and vandalism."

A complaint filed by the America First Legal Foundation with the Office of the Inspector General to investigate the DOJ obtained by the Washington Free Beacon alleges that the Biden administration has ignored the spike in attacks against Jews in the US following Hamas’ attack on Oct. 7 that killed over 1,200 people. 

According to the organization, Biden’s administration is slow-walking the prosecution of Hamas sympathizers in America, including US visa holders and other foreign nationals living in the US. 

Citing information from US officials and DOJ attorneys, the organization wrote in the complaint, "It appears that concerns regarding the potential electoral consequences of protecting Jewish Americans and enforcing American anti-terrorism laws and/or sympathy for Hamas's aims are inappropriately biasing the Department's decision-making." 

America First Legal has also reportedly filed Freedom of Information Act requests with the Education and Homeland Security Departments to find out why the Biden administration is not deporting or prosecuting US visa holders and other foreign nationals who support Hamas and have targeted Jews on college campuses.

America First Legal's senior counselor and director of oversight and investigations, Reed Rubinstein, told the outlet, "On October 7, pro-Hamas extremists, many of whom are foreign nationals, launched a campaign of intimidation and violence against American Jews in the streets and on campuses. However, the Biden administration's Department of Justice—which fully mobilized federal law enforcement against American parents speaking out at school board meetings—has been conspicuously silent."

He added, "This silence is purposeful," and is a result of "leftist anti-Israel ideologues in the bureaucracy and, in part, White House political concerns that protecting American Jews will suppress Democrat voter turnout among the pro-Hamas community."

According to the complaint, "Despite patent, nationwide lawbreaking, often by foreign nationals, targeting American Jews and Jewish institutions, the Department has taken no such action. This is very difficult to understand. The Department's political echelon has made 'domestic terrorism' a central talking point and a singular domestic intelligence, investigative, and enforcement priority."

The group added that the department's inspector general should "investigate whether political considerations have impermissibly infected the Department's investigative and enforcement decision-making with respect to the above-described pro-Hamas activity, individuals, and groups in the United States," as federal law says any individual who "endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization" can’t hold a visa.