Overview

• Peter Hatch, assistant director at Homeland Security Investigations, testified that over 75% of the 5,000 student names flagged for review were sourced from Canary Mission.
• The Department of Homeland Security formed a specialized “Tiger Team” in March by reallocating analysts from counterterrorism, global trade and cybercrime units to assess campus activists.
• Analysts conducted independent fact-finding on each individual before producing roughly 100–200 detailed reports that were forwarded to the State Department for action.
• Academic groups including the AAUP and MESA contend the ideological deportation campaign chills First Amendment rights and misuses immigration law against student speech.
• U.S. District Judge William Young will decide whether the Trump administration’s ideological deportation policy violates constitutional and due process protections.