NY Judge Blocks Deportation of U.K. Censorship Radical Who Tried to Blacklist Breitbart

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From Breitbart: A New York federal judge has intervened to block the Trump administration from deporting Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed after the State Department announced sanctions against him and four other Europeans for waging censorship campaigns against Americans.

In a Christmas Day ruling, Judge Vernon S. Broderick, of the Federal District Court for the Southern District of New York, issued a temporary restraining order barring Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers, among others, from detaining Imran Ahmed.

Ahmed, a British citizen of Afghan heritage, is a current resident of the United States on a Green Card. The former Labour Party advisor was among five Euro-area citizens to be sanctioned this week with visa bans and deportation orders by the State Department for their role in leading “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”

Ahmed’s Centre for Countering Digital Hate, which was founded with the involvement of UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s now Chief of Staff Morgan McSweeny, has long attempted to censor and deplatform conservative news outlets in the United States, including Breitbart News.

More recently, the CCDH had said in internal documents its mission is to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” after the platform rolled back many of the draconian censorship regulations imposed before Tesla boss Elon Musk bought the social media firm.

On Tuesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced in a post on X:

For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose. The Trump Administration will no longer tolerate these egregious acts of extraterritorial censorship.

Today, @StateDept will take steps to bar leading figures of the global censorship-industrial complex from entering the United States. We stand ready and willing to expand this list if others do not reverse course.

Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers then added, “Today, the United States issued SANCTIONS reinforcing the “red line” I invoked on @GBNEWS. Namely: extraterritorial censorship of Americans. Today’s sanctions target the censorship-NGO ecosystem.🧵”

“These sanctions are visa-related. We aren’t invoking severe Magnitsky-style financial measures, but our message is clear: if you spend your career fomenting censorship of American speech, you’re unwelcome on American soil.”

In a lengthy X thread, Rogers listed multiple individuals to be sanctioned in the move. However, Ahmed is reportedly the only one currently in the U.S.

Rogers wrote, “WE’VE SANCTIONED: Imran Ahmed, key collaborator with the Biden Administration’s effort to weaponize the government against U.S. citizens. Ahmed’s group, Center for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH), created the infamous “disinformation dozen” report, which called for platforms to deplatform twelve American “anti-vaxxers”, including now-HHS Secretary @SecKennedy. Leaked documents from CCDH show the organization listed “kill Musk’s Twitter” and “trigger EU and UK regulatory action” as priorities. The organization supports the UK’s Online Safety Act and EU’s Digital Services Act to expand censorship in Europe and around the world.”

Now, in a twist of irony, Ahmed filed an emergency appeal, claiming that his deportation would be “unlawful” and “unconstitutional” and that deportation would infringe upon his freedom of speech.

U.S. District Judge Vernon S. Broderick, appointed by Barack Obama in 2013, quickly granted Ahmed’s request for a temporary restraining order, blocking the Trump administration from detaining or deporting him.

With a green card, and an American wife and child, Ahmed now has a foothold in America.

His attorney declared, “The federal government can’t deport a green card holder like Imran Ahmed, with a wife and young child who are American, simply because it doesn’t like what he has to say. We look forward to the hearing before the Court on Monday.”

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