Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down Stanford University’s explosive new lawsuit targeting Trump-era rules that threaten to deport foreign student journalists for publishing “anti-government” views. They trace the roots of this modern-day censorship back to the 1798 Alien Friends Act, dissect how pro-Palestinian speech is being weaponized as a deportation trigger, and reveal why this legal fight is about more than visas it’s a battle for the soul of the First Amendment. Kabateck and Karnikian expose how the administration’s selective interpretation of constitutional protections puts over 1 million international students at risk for simply speaking out.