US judge to restrict Trump efforts to deport pro-Palestinian campus activists

BOSTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) - A federal judge said on Thursday he would issue an order designed to prevent President Donald Trump's administration from exacting retribution against academics who challenged its arresting, detaining and deporting non-citizen, pro-Palestinian activists on U.S. college campuses.

U.S. District Judge William Young spoke at a hearing in Boston federal court, after finding in September that the U.S. departments of State and Homeland Security violated the U.S. Constitution's First Amendment by chilling free speech by the non-citizen academics on college campuses.