Overview
- Imran Ahmed filed a federal lawsuit in New York challenging the administration’s visa-exclusion measure and won a temporary order blocking any arrest or deportation pending a Monday hearing.
- He named Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Under Secretary Sarah B. Rogers, Attorney General Pam Bondi, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem as defendants.
- Ahmed is one of five Europeans targeted by the policy, a group that includes former EU commissioner Thierry Breton as well as NGO figures Clare Melford, Anna-Lena von Hodenberg, and Josephine Ballon.
- U.S. officials accuse Ahmed’s Center for Countering Digital Hate of urging platforms to obscure 12 U.S. anti-vaccine accounts, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., calling the push extraterritorial censorship.
- Ahmed is a U.S. legal permanent resident and says he will not be intimidated, while his group’s research has repeatedly criticized moderation practices on X.