Trump DOJ attorney waffles on whether free speech applies to legal US residents

An attorney with President Donald Trump’s Department of Justice walked back claims Monday that the First Amendment applies to legal residents, defending the Trump administration’s efforts to arrest and deport legal immigrants for pro-Palestinian speech and advocacy.

Victoria Santora, a trial attorney in the DOJ’s Office of Immigration, is representing the Trump administration in a First Amendment lawsuit over the arrests of five legal immigrant students – including Columbia student Mahmoud Khalil ...