{"id":603872,"date":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603872\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T17:22:10","slug":"rubios-student-visa-revocations-ruled-retaliatory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/603872\/","title":{"rendered":"Rubio\u2019s student visa revocations ruled “retaliatory”\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

California district judge No\u00ebl Wise held that the US government may not revoke F-1 visas, or threaten to do so, based on international students\u2019 speech in the US.<\/p>\n

He ruled<\/a> in favour of Stanford Daily and two pseudonymous students, maintaining that international students in the US hold \u201cthe right to freedom of speech\u201d and \u201cprotection from government retribution based on hostility toward speech.\u201d<\/p>\n

While the administration has \u201csignificant authority\u201d on foreign policy and national security, \u201ceven in those arenas, the government\u2019s authority is constrained by First Amendment rights\u201d, Wise ruled.<\/p>\n

\u201cFoundational to America\u2019s enduring democracy are our freedoms of speech and the press embodied in the First Amendment.\u201d <\/p>\n

The case was brought by Stanford Daily last year and supported<\/a> by 55 student media outlets, among other organisations, alleging the Trump administration\u2019s visa revocations, arrests and deportations of F-1 visa holders stifled student speech across the US.<\/p>\n

\u201cNoncitizen students heard the warning and heeded. And, as the idiom goes, the silence is deafening,\u201d wrote Wise.<\/p>\n

American higher education would be impoverished if students from abroad were not guaranteed the freedom to speak and write as they please<\/p>\n

Thomas Berry, Cato Institute<\/p>\n

The lawsuit challenged thousands<\/a> of student visa revocations by the US government last year, alongside high-profile arrests and attempted deportations of F-1 visa holders for their protest attendance, association with pro-Palestine groups, social media posts and op-eds.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, the judgement reaffirmed that immigration status cannot be wielded to punish constitutionally protected speech.<\/p>\n

It drew heavily on a previous lawsuit<\/a> brought against Rubio by the American Association of University Professors (AAUP), which similarly found the administration\u2019s policy of arresting, detaining and deporting noncitizen students for their pro-Palestinian advocacy to be unlawful under the First Amendment.<\/p>\n

In the latest case, Wise ruled in favour of the plaintiffs\u2019 argument that the government used two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act unconstitutionally and that the secretary of state\u2019s authority to deport individuals deemed to threaten national security, does not overrule free-speech protections.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, he said the deportation provision used by Rubio was unconstitutionally vague for allowing deportations based on the secretary\u2019s personal determination, which would require visa holders to guess what he deems to constitute a compelling foreign policy interest.<\/p>\n

Thomas Berry, the director of the Robert A Levy Centre for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute \u2013 one of several organisations to file an amicus brief<\/a> in support of the plaintiffs \u2013 said the court\u2019s decision was \u201cexactly right\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cAmerican higher education would be impoverished if students from abroad were not guaranteed the freedom to speak and write as they please on American campuses.\u201d<\/p>\n

He called on the administration to \u201cend its open hostility to noncitizen campus speech and agree to no longer threaten retribution for the exercise of First Amendment rights.\u201d<\/p>\n

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