On October 7, pro-Hamas extremists, many of whom are foreign nationals, launched a campaign of intimidation and violence in violation of U.S. anti-terrorism and civil rights laws. 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. Credible information suggests that this silence is purposeful; the product, in part, of leftist anti-Israel ideologues in the bureaucracy and, in part, White House political concerns that enforcing the law and protecting Americans from pro-Hamas violence will suppress Democrat voter turnout among the pro-Hamas community. If true, this would be a massive betrayal of the rule of law and national security. Congress and the Inspector General must act, and find the truth
Focus of the Investigation
America First Legal (AFL) asked the Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of the Inspector General to investigate whether the Department’s silence is because political concerns have inappropriately infected the DOJ’s law enforcement decision-making, and filed Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests with the Department of Education and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to determine why the Biden Administration is ignoring U.S. immigration law and refusing to deport visa holders and illegal aliens who support Hamas. AFL additionally filed FOIA requests relating to the Biden Administration’s failure to properly police the anti-American/pro-Hamas riots at the Watergate Hotel and Union Station in Washington, D.C.