The Trump administration has fired immigration judges who dismissed high-profile deportation cases against international students who joined protests in support of Palestinians. Judge Roopal Patel had ruled in January that the government had no grounds to deport Rümeysa Öztürk, a Turkish-born student targeted by the Trump administration. Öztürk was personally targeted by Secretary of State Marco Rubio after she wrote an op-ed in a student newspaper critical of Tufts University’s stances on Palestinian causes. Patel was fired on Friday, as were five other judges, including Nina Froes, who in February ended deportation proceedings against Columbia University Palestinian student Mohsen Mahdawi. The fired judges told The New York Times they’d come under pressure from the Trump administration to order more deportations.