Francesca Maria Lorenzini

As pro-Palestinian protests sweep U.S. universities, the federal government is escalating its crackdown on student activism – testing the boundaries of free speech and immigration law. Beginning with the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University protest leader and legal permanent resident, the Trump administration has invoked national security and foreign policy to justify deportations, visa revocations, and threats of funding cuts to schools.

But these measures are not unprecedented; they draw on a long history of U.S. laws that have been used to silence dissent and police political ideology. Khalil’s case, and the court battles it has sparked, highlight the clash between constitutional freedoms and the sweeping powers the government wields over non-citizens in times of political unrest.

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