State Department official testifies how Stephen Miller was involved in discussions over student visas and antisemitism

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State Department official testifies how Stephen Miller was involved in discussions over student visas and antisemitism

By Holmes Lybrand, CNN
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Published 3:48 PM EDT, Fri July 18, 2025

(CNN) — The State Department had more than a dozen meetings with the White House – including Stephen Miller, President Donald Trump’s White House deputy chief of staff – and other agencies to discuss the topic of student visas, a top department official said in federal court on Friday.

The White House did not comment on the meetings.

John Armstrong, the senior bureau official in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, described to a judge how the State Department used broad definitions of antisemitism when scrutinizing the speech and activities of non-citizen students and professors the department chose to attempt to remove from the US.

Armstrong appeared toward the end of a two-week trial in which a group of university professors who say the administration’s efforts to deport individuals over their anti-Israel views is intended to limit protected political speech.

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