Steve Yale-Loehr was quoted by CBS News in Trump’s Crackdown on Students With Visas and Green Cards Sets Up First Amendment Showdown. He said, “There’s a tension between everyone’s First Amendment rights to free speech and the immigration statute’s broad provisions giving the secretary of state broad latitude to declare someone deportable simply because he thinks that the student may have potentially serious adverse foreign policy consequences. And the courts will have to figure out where the appropriate line should be drawn.” Recalling two other cases where similar powers were invoked in deportation proceedings, Steve said he expects that it will take years for these cases to be settled, predicting that “it’s going to be a mess. If there’s over 300 students who had their visas revoked, there’s going to be a lot of cases challenging it. I suspect that the litigation will take years to unravel before a court and get a definitive ruling on the extent to which foreign nationals have First Amendment rights.”
