US EditionJudge finds Trump administration unconstitutionally targeted noncitizens over Gaza war protests
Judge Young ruled the Trump administration's visa revocations and deportations targeted over 1,600 pro-Palestinian students, violating their First Amendment rights by suppressing political speech.
- On Tuesday, U.S. District Judge William G. Young in Boston ruled the Trump administration targeted pro-Palestinian non-citizens for arrest and deportation to `strike fear` and chill speech.
- The policy traces to January executive orders by President Donald Trump directing agencies to act against non-citizens accused of `espousing hateful ideology` after protests, and faculty groups including AAUP and MESA filed suit in March.
- During the trial, witnesses said enforcement targeted more than 5,000 protesters, with many names from Canary Mission, which was used to identify targets.
- Young said remedies will be decided later and plaintiffs urged him to bar deportation threats, while judges ordered releases and he found Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem deliberately sought to suppress speech.
- Young's 161-page opinion framed the ruling as an emphatic rebuke, finding the policy arbitrary or capricious and the First Amendment protects non-citizens equally; White House spokespersons called it `an outrageous ruling` while Department of Homeland Security officials defended enforcement.
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What happenedA federal judge in Boston Tuesday ruled that the Trump administration’s push to arrest and deport international students for voicing their support for Palestinians was an illegal, “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”The case was brought by a group of university faculty in response to the administration’s targeting of noncitizen students, including Mahmoud Khalil and Rumeysa Ozturk, who had publicly opp…
Massachusetts district judge finds attempted deportation of pro-Palestine protestors violates First Amendment
A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that the Trump administration violated the First Amendment by attempting to deport non-citizens for protesting the conflict in Gaza in American Association of University Professors v. Rubio. Judge Williams, a district judge for the US District Court for Massachusetts, stated in his opinion that the Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio had acted intentionally “to chill the …
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