It is hard now even for Democrats to defend illegal immigration, given that the Biden administration allowed in more than 10 ...

On September 17, 2025, one month before I was to teach my annual social justice reporting class at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the campus lowered its flag to half-mast in ...

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The Yale Daily News on Wednesday joined an amicus brief supporting Stanford University’s student newspaper in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of a federal immigration law to ...

The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals heard arguments in the detention cases of Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, and Rümeysa Öztürk, TC ’20, on Tuesday. Mahdawi was detained by Immigration and ...

Over 100 people dressed in black gathered at the 116th Street and Broadway gates on Monday to support Palestinian activist Mohsen Mahdawi, GS ’25, SIPA ’27, ahead of his Tuesday hearing—at which a ...

Judge William Young of the Federal District Court in Boston is a Reagan appointee who has been on the bench for 47 years. Last June, he received a threatening postcard. Handwritten in all caps, it ...

A federal appeals court in New York heard arguments Tuesday in cases involving two graduate students who claim they were unlawfully detained earlier this year by Immigration and Customs Enforcement as ...

Judge William Young rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment Judge says administration's policy chilled free speech on campuses Judge was appointed by Republican President Ronald Reagan ...

BOSTON — A U.S. judge ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump’s administration had acted unconstitutionally by adopting a policy of revoking visas, arresting, detaining and deporting foreign ...

(NEW YORK) -- A federal appeals court in New York will hear oral arguments Tuesday in cases involving two graduate students who claim they were unlawfully detained earlier this year by Immigration and ...