D.H.S./Rubio reviewed Foreign Students' Writings and Protests Before Their Arrest and deportations

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/us/politics/trump-rubio-student-speech.html

D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests

Documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday include dossiers that investigators prepared on pro-Palestinian student activists before they were targeted for deportation.


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Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally approved the deportation of five student activists last year after receiving memos largely describing their participation in pro-Palestinian protests and their writings about the war in Gaza, according to internal government documents unsealed by a federal judge on Thursday.

The documents reveal new details about how the Trump administration decided to target the activists, who were all foreign students visible in campus protests. They had been in the United States legally but were arrested and threatened with deportation last spring.

The several hundred pages were submitted as evidence in a trial held in Massachusetts in July over noncitizen students’ freedom of expression.

After hearing testimony and examining the documents, Judge William G. Young, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, ruled last year that the Trump administration had illegally targeted the students for deportation based on their speech — in particular their opposition to the Israeli government and its military operations in Gaza.

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1. Rubio and DHS approved the arrest on a person based on editorial

What happened to the First Amendment

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