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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Trump cannot deport students for criticizing Israel, judge rules

Ideological Deportation - (Copyright 2019 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

Citing the importance of the First Amendment, a federal judge in California says the U.S. government is unconstitutionally silencing critics of Israel's war in Gaza and others as part of the Trump administration 's quest to deport noncitizens who it says disrupted college campuses while expressing their views.

Judge Noël Wise, in a ruling Friday, delivered a victory for the student newspaper at Stanford University, which has said some international students were afraid to speak out because of the deportation threat.

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