The professors of his Trump of the Administration for the arrests of the Campus demonstrators
The groups representing the university professors sued the Trump Administration Tuesday, claiming that his practice to arrest and threaten students and members of the Faculty Non -Citizen for protesting the US citizens of their right to commit themselves to the Campus in the campus to commit themselves with peers born abroad and to listen to their prospects.
THE causeDespite at the United States District Court in Massachusetts, he adopts a wider approach of a burst of other recent causes that challenge the expulsion policies of the federal government on university campuses. Those seeds, including two involving a Columbia Student AND a recent graduate who are the owners of green cards, aim to stop the individual deportation procedures.
The cause intended on Tuesday challenges the general approach of the Trump administration to deportation, stating that it is unconstitutional.
The decision to hit the non-citizens who participate in the activity and the Phili-Palestinian protest speech, supports the cause, has created a widely chilling effect on what can be listened to on the university campuses.
“Today, the administration is looking for a pro-Palestinian speech, but tomorrow it can go after the speech by criticizing fossil fuels, the speech that promotes the speech or the speech that defends the genre affirm,” said Ramya Krishnan, a senior prosecutor of the Knight First Emination Institute at Columbia, who represents the professors of the law.
“Here there is no principle limiting to the administration theory, and this is part of what is so disturbing,” he said.
The lawsuit of the cause include the American Association of University Professors, a non -profit group focused on issues of academic freedom and three of its chapters, in Harvard, New York University and Rutgers, as well as the non -profit Middle East Studies Association. The Knight Institute is an independent organization that does not represent the Columbia administration.
The cause depends on a principle of the first amendment that Americans have the right not only to express ideas, but also to listen to them. This is violated, claims, since non-citizens avoid political protests, eliminate their social media and takes a step back from participation in groups engaged in the pro-Palestinian defense. It is also reflected through self -censorship in class, which is done to avoid attention, says the suit.
“We talked to the faculty that changed their programs or decided to have not taught entire courses for fear that teaching a certain material could mark a goal on the back,” said Mrs. Krishnan.
The cause argues that the deportation policy also violates the fifth amendment, which guarantees the right process, because it cannot give students non -citizens and members of the faculty “fair warning on what speech and association believes as reasons of arrest, detention and deportation”.
The defendants appointed in the cause are President Trump; Marco Rubio, the Secretary of State; Kristi Noem, secretary of national security; And Todd Lyons, interim director of immigration and customs application of the United States.
The State Department has declared away and -mail that “as a general question, we do not comment on the dispute in progress or waiting”. The National Security Department did not immediately respond to a commentary request.
