The Trump administration removed two immigration judges after they dismissed deportation cases involving high-profile pro-Palestinian international students, according to reporting summarized in the provided materials. The judges—Roopal Patel and Nina Froes—were among those the Justice Department dismissed as part of a broader crackdown. Patel, an immigration judge in Boston, had ruled in January that the government had not established grounds to deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a Tufts Ph.D. student whose student-visa status was revoked after co-writing an op-ed linked to Tufts’ response to campus pro-Palestinian activity. Froes had blocked the deportation of Mohsen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student at Columbia who is also a green-card holder and a leader of 2024 campus protests. The judge determined that the Department of Homeland Security did not prove it could legally deport him. The procedural impact is immediate for affected students and for universities hosting international scholars: changes to adjudication personnel and enforcement momentum could reshape outcomes in pending and future cases, adding uncertainty to campus climate and student support planning.