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Reason
Reem Ibrahim

Trump Can't Deport Legal Immigrants for Protected Speech, Judge Rules

Since President Donald Trump's return to the White House, the federal government has repeatedly used immigration law to stifle speech. Legal noncitizens have been threatened with deportation for criticizing Israel and American foreign policy, but a federal judge says this is unconstitutional.

On Friday, U.S. District Judge Noël Wise of the Northern District of California held that Secretary of State Marco Rubio's use of two provisions in the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) of 1952 to target legal noncitizens violates the First and Fifth Amendments.

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