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Judge deals blow to Trump moves to deport pro-Palestinian activists

A 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.

U.S. District Judge Noel Wise ​in San Jose, California in a blistering ruling chastised the U.S. State Department and U.S. 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.

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