The U.S. Department of Homeland Security decried a lawsuit, in which The Stanford Daily , the student paper of Stanford University, alleges that its writers are afraid to cover Israel and the Palestinians and self-censor themselves, because they fear the federal government will deport them.

Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for public affairs at the department, told JNS that the lawsuit is “baseless” and “political.”

“DHS doesn’t arrest people based on protected speech, so the plaintiffs’ premise is incorrect,” she told JNS. “DHS takes its role in removing threats to the public and our communities seriously, and the idea that enforcing federal law in that regard constitutes some kind of prior restraint on speech is laughable.”

“There is no room in the United States for the rest

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