"We are not, and we must not become, a nation that imprisons and deports people because we are afraid of what they have to tell us."

— Judge William Young

#AAUPvRubio

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In a landmark ruling in our case against the Trump admin on the deportation of international students for protected speech, Judge William Young rejected the government’s justification for the wearing of masks by ICE agents as
“disingenuous, squalid & dishonorable.”

#AAUPvRubio
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This 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.”

“The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally ‘yes, they do’.

— Judge William G. Young

#AAUPvRubio

In addition to #AAUPvRubio, we are also in Federal court today in Boston fighting for the restoration of $2.6 billion in crucial lifesaving scientific & medical research funding.

Here is AAUP Senior Counsel Aaron Nisenson outside the courthouse where both cases were heard today.

#TrumpCutsKill

Landmark Trial Ends, With Court’s Ruling to Come; Record Uncovers New Details on Ideological-Deportation Policy and Its Effects on Academic Life

This has been the first major trial of Trump’s second term. Over eight days of witness testimony, it uncovered a wealth of new detail about the ideological-deportation policy and its effects on college and university campuses across the country.

#AAUPvRubio

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How about its leadership of national legal fight against the Trump's admin's attacks on higher ed institutions? #AAUPvRubio

Closing arguments have begun in our trial against the Trump admin’s policy of ideological deportations.

AAUP counsel: “The government’s policy is working actually as intended. The goal is to chill speech and stifle dissent.”

#AAUPvRubio

DHS Targeted Khan Suri for Academic Speech, Lawyers Allege Lawyers for a university academic association alleged the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) targeted Georgetown University postdoctoral researcher Badar Khan Suri for his academic research an...

They're going after students who speak their minds on Palestine, but they won't stop there.

They'll come next for anyone who says anything they disagree with.

We all have to draw a line together.

#defendhighered #aaupvrubio

John Armstrong, Senior Bureau Official in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, testified today in #AAUPvRubio that *ANY* criticism of Israel is grounds for visa revocation visa and deportation.

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Federal agents describe unusual run-up to arrests of Pro-Palestinian academics The revelations came in an ongoing trial on a lawsuit claiming the Trump administration is targeting pro-Palestinian academics for deportation over their speech.

Testimony in #AAUPvRubio today offered another disturbingly clear view of the inner bureaucracy of our fascist immigration apparatus: ICE agents offering matter-of-fact descriptions of their ideological targeting of students like Rümeysa Öztürk for Palestine advoacy
www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

While yet another show trial commences in DC weaponizing antisemitism to target university leaders, the AAUP is in the middle of a trial in Boston against the Trump administration's systematic targeting of noncitizen academics for ideological deportation over pro-Palestinian speech. #AAUPvRubio

“A page directly out of the McCarthy playbook.”

Rep Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social just slammed the Trump admin for using the anonymous site Canary Mission as a basis to target pro-Palestinian students as has emerged in our ongoing federal trial against ideological deportations. #AAUPvRubio