A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that President Trump’s crackdown on pro-Palestinian campus activists was unlawful, finding his administration singled out activists critical of Israel’s war in Gaza for immigration enforcement based on their protected speech.
U.S. District Judge William Young, an appointee of former President Reagan, sided with several university associations who had argued that the administration’s policy was to revoke the visas and green cards of noncitizens critical of the war in thge aim of chilling their free expression.
The judge said Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, along with their subordinate officials and agents, worked together to “misuse the sweeping powers of their respective offices to target non