Sunday 30 August 2026 - 15:48
US Federal Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Pro-Palestine Students

A US federal judge on Friday ruled that laws that President Donald ​Trump’s administration used to cancel visas and initiate deportation proceedings against noncitizen college students based on their pro-Palestinian ‌advocacy and criticism of ‘Israel’ are unconstitutional.

Hawzah News Agency- US District Judge Noel Wise in San Jose, California in a blistering ruling, opens new tab chastised the US State Department and US Department of Homeland Security for how they had deployed provisions of federal immigration law to target non-citizens for deportation for expressing views they wanted to suppress.

Wise’s ruling focused on how the Trump administration, from March 2025, began revoking visas and detaining non-citizens who engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus, starting with the arrest of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who is fighting separately to avoid being deported.

Source: Al Manar

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