The Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students and academics violated the First Amendment by targeting them for expressing their political views, a federal judge ruled in an unusual opinion that broadly and sharply criticized President Donald Trump.
US District Judge William G. Young in Boston said that non-citizens have the same First Amendment rights as Americans. Young, who presided over a trial in July, said the case “squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in United States actually have the same free speech rights as the rest of us” Young said.