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The judges removed had blocked the deportation of two high-profile international students.<\/p>\n
Selcuk Acar\/Anadolu via Getty Images<\/p>\n
The Trump administration on Friday removed two immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against two high-profile pro-Palestinian international students, The New York Times<\/em> reported. <\/p>\n The judges, Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, were among six that the Justice Department\u2014which oversees immigration adjudication\u2014dismissed last week, part of the Trump administration\u2019s broader crackdown on immigrants. <\/p>\n Patel, an immigration judge in Boston, ruled in January that the government had no grounds to deport R\u00fcmeysa \u00d6zt\u00fcrk, an international Ph.D. student from Turkey studying at Tufts University, who was picked up by plainclothes immigration officers on the streets around Tufts last year. Secretary of State Marco Rubio had revoked her student visa status after she co-wrote an op-ed in the student newspaper criticizing Tufts\u2019 response to the campus pro-Palestinian movement.<\/p>\n Froes, an immigration judge in Chelmsford, Mass., in February blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student\u2014and green card holder\u2014at Columbia University and a leader of the campus protests during the Israel-Gaza war. Froes determined that the Department of Homeland Security had not proved its case that Mahdawi\u2014who had been freed from federal custody last April\u2014could be legally deported from the U.S.<\/p>\n \u00d6zt\u00fcrk and Mahdawi were two of the most vocal and visible international students detained in the wake of the pro-Palestinian campus protests of 2024. Their arrests prompted widespread outrage among free speech advocates.<\/p>\n Both Patel and Froes were appointed during the Biden administration. And according to a New York Times <\/em>analysis, both granted asylum more frequently than other judges: Patel in 41.5\u00a0percent of cases and Froes in 33\u00a0percent of cases, compared to 18\u00a0percent over all. <\/p>\n Froes told the Times<\/em> she was not surprised by her dismissal.<\/p>\n \u201cI fully expected it,\u201d she said, given how many other judges the Trump administration has fired.<\/p>\n She also said she didn’t realize how renowned Mahdawi\u2019s case was. <\/p>\n \u201cYou have so many people coming before you,\u201d she said. \u201cYou don\u2019t go google people\u2019s names. That\u2019s not how it works. You look at the record.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The judges removed had blocked the deportation of two high-profile international students. Selcuk Acar\/Anadolu via Getty Images The Trump administration on Friday removed two immigration judges who dismissed deportation cases against two high-profile pro-Palestinian international students, The New York Times reported. The judges, Roopal Patel and Nina Froes, were among six that the Justice Department\u2014which<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":48276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[3767,4280,6883,148,9039,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-48275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-education","8":"tag-cases","9":"tag-deportation","10":"tag-dismissed","11":"tag-judges","12":"tag-removed","13":"tag-student"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=48275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/48276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=48275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=48275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naijaglobalnews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=48275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}