By Blake Brittain

(Reuters) -Stanford University’s student newspaper sued the Trump Administration on Wednesday, arguing it has violated the free-speech rights of foreign students by threatening to deport them for writing stories that it considers “anti-American or anti-Israel.”

The Stanford Daily and two unidentified students said in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in California against Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, that foreign students at the Palo Alto, California, school have refused to write about the conflict in the Middle East for fear they could be arrested, detained and deported.

“This pall of fear is incompatible with American liberty,” the lawsuit said. “Our First Amendment stands as a bulwark against the government infring

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