Overview

• U.S. District Judge William G. Young found DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio coordinated visa revocations, arrests and deportation threats to chill campus speech.
• The 161-page opinion holds that noncitizens lawfully in the United States have the same First Amendment protections as citizens.
• Trial evidence detailed hundreds of visa cancellations, investigators reviewing more than 5,000 names from the Canary Mission website, and masked ICE operations the judge condemned.
• High-profile examples included Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts student Rümeysa Öztürk, whose detentions prompted court-ordered releases while their immigration cases continue.
• Separate appeals were argued Tuesday in the 2nd Circuit over the government’s efforts to overturn bail for Öztürk and Columbia student Mohsen Mahdawi.