'Whole new level': Ex-DHS officials share 'clear motivation' behind Trump’s deportations

President Donald Trump's administration has lately been ramping up scrutiny of all foreign nationals in the United States, rather than just focusing on undocumented immigrants. In the case of the scientist, he was ultimately sent back to France after officials discovered he had "expressed a personal opinion" about the Trump administration's scientific research policies. But Will Creeley, who is the legal director for the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, told the Times that he believed the administration's "clear motivation here is to chill speech." “The administration has not produced any evidence that Mr. Khalil’s expressive activity falls into the narrow or carefully defined exceptions to the First Amendment.” Gil Kerlikowske — who was once a commissioner for U.S. Customs and Border Protection and a police chief in four cities — noted that Trump's hardline immigration policies are similar to those of his first time, but like "déjà vu all over again on steroids." Additionally, former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano — who served during former President Barack Obama's first term – insisted that Trump's strict immigration measures were an attack on the Constitution.