Deportation for "Pro-Palestine or Anti-Israel Political Speech" May Violate the First Amendment, Court Holds

Judge William Young allows First Amendment challenges to go forward in immigration case.

Case raises issue of whether Public Officials can enforce policy of arresting, detaining and deporting non-citizens based solely on their pro-Palestine or anti-Israel political speech.

Political speech is "at the core of what the First Amendment is designed to protect," says Volokh Conspiracy .

First Amendment values underlying the First Amendment require the full applicability of First Amendment rights to the deportation setting.

Harisiades establishes that deportation grounds are to be judged by the same standard applied to other burdens on First Amendment right.

The AAUP and MESA have standing to challenge the allegedly objective chill on their noncitizen members' speech.

The court also allowed plaintiffs' claim that the deportation policy violates the Administrative Procedure Act.