(7 Jul 2025)
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Boston – 7 July 2025
1. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute:
“Arresting and threatening to deport non-citizen students and faculty for engaging in lawful political protest is a practice we associate with authoritarian regimes. It has no place in a democracy like ours. The reason we’re here in court today is to end the government’s campaign of retribution against students and faculties for engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy.”
2. Pan of demonstrators
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute:
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“There’s no question that non-citizens living in this country have First Amendment rights. It’s true that the government tried to walk that back, saying that things were more nuanced, but it didn’t explain how things were nuanced. And courts have been clear in every single case involving these non-citizen students who are being arrested and detained based on their First Amendment protected advocacy, the courts have been universal in their pronouncement that their expression is protected by the First Amendment.”
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4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute:
“We haven’t seen ideological deportations of this kind since the McCarthy era when the government attempted to deport members of the Communist Party. And that is why you have the government citing in court, in support of their proposition, their argument that people don’t, these non-citizens don’t have First Amendment rights. They have to reach back to that era, which we now all look upon with embarrassment and shame.”
++ENDS ON SOUNDBITE++
STORYLINE:
Plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration campaign of arresting and deporting faculty and students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations argued Monday it was an orchestrated effort that has stifled free speech at universities around the country.
The lawsuit, filed by several university associations against President Donald Trump and members of his administration, is one of the first to go to trial. Plaintiffs want U.S. District Judge William Young to rule the policy violates the First Amendment and the Administrative Procedure Act, a law that governs the process by which federal agencies develop and issue regulations.
“Not since the McCarthy era have immigrants been the target of such intense repression for lawful political speech,” Ramya Krishnan, senior staff attorney at the Knight First Amendment Institute, told the court. “The policy creates a cloud of fear over university communities, and it is at war with the First Amendment. The First Amendment forecloses viewpoint discrimination; it forecloses retaliation; and it forecloses government threats meant to coerce silence.”
In response, lawyers for the government argued that no such policy exists and that the government is enforcing immigration laws legally and is doing so to protect national security.
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