Judge slows deportations for foreign students who are suing Trump

A federal judge issued a sweeping ruling Thursday entitling noncitizen students who have sued the Trump administration to a court hearing if their immigration status is changed.

The Trump administration has faced several hurdles from district courts in pursuing parts of its deportation agenda, including revoking the visas of pro-Palestinian students who have engaged in anti-Israel unrest on college campuses. The lawsuit before U.S. District Judge William Young was brought by a pair of groups, the American Association of University Professors and the Middle East Studies Association, both of which alleged the administration partook in unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination by revoking the student visas of foreign nationals who were involved in anti-Israel unrest.

Young, in his Thursday order, claimed that there was a “concerted action of the