A federal judge in Massachusetts has ruled that Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and Secretary of State Marco Rubio violated the First Amendment by targeting pro-Palestinian students for deportation. U.S. District Judge William Young found that these actions were intended to instill fear and curb lawful speech on college campuses. The judge's decision, delivered after a nine-day trial, criticized the Trump administration's "unconstitutional suppression of free speech" and the "invidious" intent behind these deportations, which he stated continues to chill freedom of speech.

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