Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., has introduced a bill that would prevent any pro-Hamas protesters convicted of a crime stemming from their on-campus protests from having their student loans forgiven.

The “No Bailout for Campus Criminals Act” stipulates that an individual convicted of any offense under any federal or state law related to the individual’s conduct at and during the course of a protest that occurs at an institution of higher education shall be ineligible for forgiveness, cancellation, waiver, or modification of certain Federal student loans.”

“Americans who never went to college or responsibly paid off their debts shouldn’t have to pay off other people’s student loans,” Cotton said in a statement Thursday. “They especially shouldn’t have to pay off the loans of Hamas sympathizers shutting down and defacing campuses.”

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