Overview

• President Trump’s administration invoked a rarely used provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to target foreign students who protested the Gaza war for deportation
• A Manhattan federal judge issued a preliminary injunction on June 5 preventing the administration from arresting or transferring Columbia student Yunseo Chung for her pro-Palestinian activism
• Judges have freed Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi and Badar Khan Suri and are poised to rule shortly on the detention of former Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil
• Judges cited a lack of evidence linking the students to terrorism and held that prosecuting them for protesting violates their First Amendment and due process rights
• The administration has vowed to appeal the rulings, raising the prospect of Supreme Court review over executive immigration authority and student speech rights