Former Purdue University President Mitch Daniels said Sunday that student protesters who broke the law should be expelled from universities and their places given to other applicants who were originally denied entry.
“I think the appropriate consequences here, first and foremost, are expulsion from the university,” Daniels, who is also a former Republican governor of Indiana, said in an interview with NewsNation’s “The Hill Sunday.”
“These so-called elite institutions pride themselves on their selectivity,” he continued. “For every student who broke a rule or law there were 10, 20 students who would love to have this space. And that space must now be made available to one of them so they can come and take advantage of this wonderful opportunity to attend a good university as intended.”
Daniels said he does not support the idea of stripping student visas of those who “support Hamas,” the U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization that carried out the Oct. 7 attack on Israel.
“Probably not in most cases,” Daniels said when asked about the proposal.
“Although if someone has broken the law, I suspect there are already rules that require or at least allow for the termination of their right to visit this country. You don’t have the right to come in and harm others, and that has happened,” he continued. “But no, not in general.”
As protests have escalated on college campuses in recent weeks, university administrators have faced scrutiny over their responses. Some criticized schools for not taking sufficient steps to enforce campus policies and protect Jewish students who feel threatened on campus, while others called police intervention unnecessarily aggressive.
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