Colleges Say Trump Admin Is Using New Tactics To Expel International Students

Some students have been targeted over pro-Palestinian activism or criminal infractions. Others have been left wondering how they ran afoul of the government.

Columbia Student Protester Can’t Be Detained for Now as She Fights Deportation, Judge Rules

The lawsuit filed against the Trump administration Monday argued the government is “attempting to use immigration enforcement as a bludgeon to suppress speech that they dislike.”

Columbia Student Protester Who’s Lived in the US Since Age 7 Sues To Stop Deportation Order

The lawsuit accuses immigration officials of employing the same tactics used on Mahmoud Khalil and other college activists.

Federal Judge Transfers Columbia Student Activist’s Case to New Jersey

Judge Jesse Furman in Manhattan called the legal challenge an “exceptional case” in need of “careful judicial review.”

Columbia University Student and the US Government Spar Over His Detention in Louisiana

In court papers over the weekend, lawyers for the Justice Department also blamed his move on overcrowded facilities in the Northeast.

Government Asks That Detained Columbia Student’s Legal Fight Be Moved to New Jersey or Louisiana

His lawyers argued that he engaged in protected free speech and that the government is illegally retaliating against him over it.

White House Pressures Columbia University as It Seeks To Deport Pro-Palestinian Activists

Columbia had been given names and was refusing to help the Department of Homeland Security “to identify those individuals on campus.”

Trump Campaigned as a Protector of Free Speech. Critics Say His Actions as President Threaten It

But First Amendment advocates say they’ve never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in Trump’s second term.