2026-08-29T02:45:02.407Z / https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-deals-blow-trump-moves-deport-pro-palestinian-activists-2026-08-29/
2025年10月7日，美国纽约曼哈顿，哥伦比亚大学毕业生马哈茂德·哈利勒参加哥伦比亚大学校外的亲巴勒斯坦抗议活动，当日是哈马斯从加沙地带对以色列发动致命袭击2023年10月7日的两周年纪念日。REUTERS/瑞安·墨菲 购买授权
- 内容摘要
- 判决聚焦2025年3月启动的针对亲巴勒斯坦校园宣传活动的签证撤销和驱逐程序
- 斯坦福大学校报提起的诉讼称，持学生签证的记者自我审查了相关报道
- 法官批评特朗普政府治下出现“恶性循环”
8月28日（路透社）——一名联邦法官周五作出判决，认定唐纳德·特朗普总统政府用于针对非公民大学生、以其亲巴勒斯坦宣传活动和对以色列的批评为由取消签证并启动驱逐程序的法律违宪。
美国加利福尼亚州圣何塞的联邦地区法官诺埃尔·怀斯在一份措辞严厉的判决中，谴责美国国务院和美国国土安全部动用联邦移民法条款，针对非公民因表达观点而予以驱逐，以压制其言论。
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这位由民主党总统乔·拜登任命的法官表示，在美国，言论自由——包括批评政府及其领导人的自由——是该国民主实力的体现。
“当我们社会中的成员——无论公民还是非公民——都必须自我审查、‘循规蹈矩’，否则就会遭受政府报复，这种实力就会被削弱，”她说道。
国务院和国土安全部未立即回应置评请求。
怀斯的判决聚焦特朗普政府自2025年3月起如何开始撤销参与校园亲巴勒斯坦宣传活动的非公民的签证并拘留他们，首批被逮捕的是哥伦比亚大学毕业生马哈茂德·哈利勒，他目前正单独提起诉讼以避免被驱逐。
这些逮捕行动是斯坦福大学校报《斯坦福日报》2025年8月提起诉讼的依据，该报指控其部分持学生签证的撰稿人因政府的相关政策，不再报道亲巴勒斯坦学生抗议活动以及与中东冲突相关的话题。
该报的律师辩称，政府用以取消学生签证并启动驱逐程序所依据的《移民和国籍法》两项条款，违反了适用于受宪法保护言论的美国宪法第一和第五修正案。
这些法律允许国务卿马可·卢比奥在个人认定某人的行为“损害了重大外交政策利益”时，将非公民列为可驱逐对象，并允许其自行决定撤销某人的签证。
怀斯支持该报的主张，称当非公民的言论是签证撤销和驱逐决定背后的原因时，“政府是基于言论的观点或内容，将该言论单独列为不受欢迎的对待对象”。
代表该学生报纸的个人自由与言论基金会成员康纳·菲茨帕特里克在一份声明中表示，这一判决“证明言论自由不是一项特权，而是每一位男人、女人和儿童不可剥夺的权利”。
此次判决与去年波士顿联邦地区法官威廉·杨的一项裁决类似，后者同样认定政府通过制定政策，撤销参与亲巴勒斯坦宣传活动的外国学生和教职员工的签证、逮捕、拘留并驱逐他们的行为违宪。
怀斯在判决中对政府已转向针对其不喜欢的其他类型观点表达者的行为表示担忧，称最终“目标可能包括美国境内任何行使言论自由权、仅表达政府不喜欢的观点的人”。
“这种恶性循环与我们的宪法背道而驰，宪法承认我们的言论自由权利，”她写道。“在这里，你可以同时厌恶一个人言论的内容，同时热爱这个珍视允许言论自由的国家。”
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Judge deals blow to Trump moves to deport pro-Palestinian activists
2026-08-29T02:45:02.407Z / https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/judge-deals-blow-trump-moves-deport-pro-palestinian-activists-2026-08-29/
Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil attends a pro-Palestinian protest outside Columbia University, on the two-year anniversary of the deadly October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas from Gaza, in Manhattan in New York City, U.S., October 7, 2025. REUTERS/Ryan Murphy Purchase Licensing Rights
- Summary
- Ruling focuses on visa revocations and deportation proceedings begun in March 2025 over pro-Palestinian campus advocacy
- Suit by Stanford’s student newspaper says student visa holders self-censored coverage
- Judge criticizes ‘downward spiral’ under Trump administration
Aug 28 (Reuters) – A federal judge on Friday ruled that laws that President Donald Trump’s administration used to cancel visas and initiate deportation proceedings against noncitizen college students based on their pro-Palestinian advocacy and criticism of Israel are unconstitutional.
U.S. District Judge Noel Wise in San Jose, California in a
blistering ruling
chastised the U.S. State Department and U.S. Department of Homeland Security for how they had deployed provisions of federal immigration law to target non-citizens for deportation for expressing views they wanted to suppress.
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The judge, an appointee of Democratic President Joe Biden, said that in the United States, free speech, including the freedom to criticize the government and its leaders, was evidence of the strength of the country’s democracy.
“That strength is diminished when members of our society – citizens and noncitizens alike – must self-censor and ‘behave’ or suffer the government’s retaliation,” she said.
The State Department and DHS did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
Wise’s ruling focused on how the Trump administration, from March 2025, began revoking visas and detaining non-citizens who engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy on campus, starting with the arrest of Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil, who is fighting separately to avoid being deported.
Those arrests formed the basis of a lawsuit that was filed in August 2025 by Stanford University’s student newspaper, The Stanford Daily, which alleged that some of its writers with student visas had refrained from covering pro-Palestinian student protests and topics related to the Middle East conflict as a result of the administration’s policies.
The newspaper’s lawyers argued that two provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act that the administration relied upon to cancel student visas and initiate deportation proceedings violated the U.S. Constitution’s First and Fifth Amendments as applied to constitutionally protected speech.
Those laws allowed Secretary of State Marco Rubio to render noncitizens deportable if he personally determined someone’s action “compromises a compelling foreign policy interest” and allowed him to revoke someone’s visa at his discretion.
Wise agreed with the newspaper, saying that when a noncitizen’s speech is the reason behind a visa revocation and deportation determination, “the government is singling out that speech for disfavored treatment based on its viewpoint or content.”
Conor Fitzpatrick, whose group Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression represented the student newspaper, in a statement said the ruling “proves that free speech isn’t a privilege, but the inalienable right of every man, woman, and child.”
The ruling was similar to a decision last year by Boston-based U.S. District Judge William Young, who similarly found the administration had acted unconstitutionally by adopting a policy of revoking visas, arresting, detaining and deporting foreign students and faculty engaged in pro-Palestinian advocacy.
Wise in her ruling expressed concern the administration had moved on to target people for expressing other types of views it disfavored, saying eventually the “targets may include anyone in the United States who exercises their freedom of speech to simply express opinions the government does not like.”
“This downward spiral is antithetical to our Constitution that recognizes our right to speak freely,” she wrote. “Here you can simultaneously hate the content of a person’s speech and love the country that cherishes the freedom to allow it.”
Reporting by Nate Raymond in Boston; Editing by Stephen Coates
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