DHS and State have carried out the ideological deportation policy in spectacular fashion and to devastating effect--for the individuals already targeted and for many more. It has terrified noncitizens into silence and created a climate of fear and repression at college campuses across the country.

Under a new referral process, DHS forwarded reports to State to determine whether to revoke an individual’s visa or find them removable. State Dept officials based their decisions on individuals' political speech and conflated pro-Palestinian advocacy with antisemitism and support for terrorism.

A DHS "Tiger Team" produced reports on hundreds of student protesters, including Mahmoud Khalil, Rumeysa Öztürk, and Mohsen Mahdawi. The reports documented individuals' speech and protest activities and included unverified claims that those activities were antisemitic, pro-Hamas, or anti-Israel.

Here's how the govt's ideological deportation policy worked: Shortly after Trump issued EOs 14,161 and 14,188, DHS launched an operation to identify and investigate pro-Palestinian protesters on college campuses, relying heavily on the website Canary Mission as a source for potential targets.

In particular, the court raised serious questions about whether the Trump administration's efforts to undermine agencies tasked with safeguarding the rights of federal workers have so compromised our system of civil service protections, that it can no longer function as Congress intended.

Profs. Jasanoff and Weld describe in grim detail the climate of repression and fear created by the Trump admin's ideological-deportation policy, and the devastating consequences this policy has had on the university community and the values at the heart of our system of higher ed.

Here are a few favorites from my research: the original reply card that Lamont received from the post office, which kicked off the whole case; a handwritten first draft of the majority opinion from Douglas' papers; and some scribbled notes about the case from Warren's files.