According to Lawsuit, senior orders” create a culture of repression.”
Educational organizations in the United States filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday to prevent deportation of foreign students and scholars who have pro-Palestinian opinions.
According to the lawsuit, the government’s new executive orders have” created a culture of repression and anxiety on college campuses,” according to the American Association of University Professors, the Middle East Studies Association, and the AAUP chapters at Harvard, New York, and Rutgers Universities.
The complaint claims that President Trump and other administration officials have “extended the definition of pro-Hamas” to include any speech that supports Israeli human rights or criticizes Israel’s military actions in Gaza.
Additionally, it states that Trump administration leaders “have no doubt that noncitizen students and faculty are being detained and deported for violating the constitution’s laws.”
The defendants want the court to rule that the plan is infringing on the First and Fifth Amendments.
The complaint cites the circumstances of Arab protesters Mahmoud Khalil, a new graduate from Columbia University, Badar Suri from Georgetown University, and Yunseo Chung from Columbia University.
According to Inside Higher Ed, a provincial judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to deport Chung because there was no “foreign-policy risk” she posed, according to a federal prosecutor.
However, the Trump administration claims that her “presence in the United States hinders the government’s international policy goal of halting the spread of racism” as a result of her presence in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, according to the store.
A federal judge also upheld Suri’s right to not be deported as an Indian citizen who was detained after being accused of “violating ] his academic visa’s terms, according to The New York Times.
According to the report,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security,” Mr. Suri was” spreading Hamas advertising and promoting hatred on social advertising.”
Additionally this month, Khalil was detained by the Trump administration for leading obnoxious pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University over the course of the last year, according to The College Fix.
According to an immigration and national security expert, the United States has the right to evict Khalil despite his claims that he is not a political prisoner.
According to George Fishman of the Center for Immigration Studies,” He is completely to leave the United States whenever he chooses.” Next, he does not have the same First Amendment right as a citizen of the United States.
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