"Ideological Deportation": Inside Stephen Miller's Campus Crackdown
Court documents show Trump’s top immigration advisor drove a secretive DHS campaign using activist watchlists to cancel green cards and visas over political speech.
WASHINGTON — Newly unsealed court records and sworn testimony reveal that the Trump administration relied extensively on a pro-Israel website called Canary Mission to identify and deport pro-Palestinian foreign students and academics, according to testimony in a federal trial underway in Massachusetts.
The lawsuit, American Association of University Professors v. Trump, alleges that the administration’s actions amount to “ideological deportation” in violation of the First Amendment. Plaintiffs argue the government specifically targeted individuals for their political views and campus activism.
At the center of the revelations is a special Department of Homeland Security task force known internally as the “Tiger Team,” which was assembled in early 2025 to identify noncitizen protestors and revoke their legal immigration status. DHS official Peter Hatch, assistant director for intelligence at Homeland Security Investigations, testified Wednesday that the team compiled “more than 100 repor…