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Stanford Daily Sues Rubio and Noem Over Visa Revocations Targeting Pro-Palestinian Speech

The suit contends that threats of visa revocation have chilled campus journalism by prompting students to remove or avoid coverage of Gaza protests.

A cyclist rides their bicycle on the Stanford University campus on March 28 in Stanford, California.
Pro-Palestine supporters rally at Stanford's White Plaza on May 12, 2024. Stanford’s student newspaper sued the Trump administration on Wednesday for threatening to deport any noncitizen who criticizes Israel or U.S. foreign policy.
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Overview

  • The Stanford Daily Publishing Corp. and two anonymous visa-holding writers filed the complaint Aug. 6 in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem.
  • Plaintiffs allege that two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act empowering secretaries to deport noncitizens for speech deemed harmful to U.S. foreign policy and to revoke visas at any time have been used to punish pro-Palestinian reporting.
  • One writer named on the pro-Israel site Canary Mission says she stopped sharing her Gaza views and removed past articles, while another paused pro-Palestinian commentary before resuming advocacy under threat of deportation.
  • The lawsuit seeks preliminary and permanent injunctions to block enforcement of the so-called ideological deportation provisions against noncitizen student journalists at Stanford.
  • DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin has denied that protected speech motivates arrests, and U.S. District Judge William Young is weighing a parallel challenge to the policy in Boston.