The Federal Judge says people have the ‘Right’ under this countries constitution to express their views without the Government deciding they lose their United States Visa…..
Knocking the actions of the Trump admin is NOT a reason to get kicked out of the country….
A federal judge on Friday declared that the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizens for political speech run counter to the Constitution’s First and Fifth Amendments, the latest legal rebuke of the White House’s expansive immigration agenda.
Northern District of California Judge Noël Wise, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, sided with the Stanford Daily, which sued Secretary of State Marco Rubio, arguing that his use of the Immigration and Nationality Act to deport noncitizen students had foreign students refraining from writing opinion pieces critical of the administration.
”In the United States, freedom of speech belongs to the people,” Wise wrote in her opinion. “It is not the government’s to take.”
Another plaintiff was an unnamed woman who is a lawful noncitizen in the U.S. who was previously in the country on a student visa at a school that was not Stanford and “has refrained from publishing and voicing her true opinions regarding Palestine and Israel and has deleted a social media account to guard against retaliation for past expression,” according to court documents.
“Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it,” Wise wrote. “Zealous protection of our Constitutional right to free speech is a provocative demonstration of our country’s powerful lack of fear.”….
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The cases became part of a broader legal and political fight over the administration’s efforts to crack down on campus activism they viewed as not aligned with their foreign policy
The administration argued their presence could harm U.S. foreign policy. The students and their lawyers responded by saying they were being punished for constitutionally protected free speech.
The detentions also prompted protests and pushback from Democratic lawmakers. Demonstrators rallied in New York and Massachusetts demanding the release of Khalil and Öztürk, while members of Congress pressed the administration over its actions toward the students…..
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