A federal judge and Obama appointee has blocked the Trump administration from deporting censorship campaigner Imran Ahmed after the State Department sanctioned him for pressuring American companies to suppress U.S. speech.
Judge Vernon S. Broderick of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York issued a temporary restraining order preventing federal officials from detaining or removing Centre for Countering Digital Hate (CCDH) CEO Imran Ahmed.
The order bars action by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Attorney General Pam Bondi, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, and other senior administration officials.
“The Supreme Court and Congress have repeatedly made clear: The United States is under no obligation to allow foreign aliens to come to our country or reside here,” the State Department said in a decision following the ruling.
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…
— Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers (@UnderSecPD) December 23, 2025
Ahmed, a British citizen of Afghan heritage, holds permanent U.S. residency through a green card.
He was among five European nationals sanctioned this week with visa bans and deportation orders for what the State Department described as “organized efforts to coerce American platforms to censor, demonetize, and suppress American viewpoints they oppose.”
The CCDH has been deeply involved in campaigns targeting conservative media figures, social media users, and technology companies.
A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from detaining or deporting Imran Ahmed. He’s a British-born researcher who focuses on countering online hate and misinformation, but the Trump administration accuses him of trying to censor viewpoints that he does… pic.twitter.com/W3FtK42ieN
— PBS News (@NewsHour) December 26, 2025
Internal documents from the organization previously stated its goal was to “Kill Musk’s Twitter” after Elon Musk loosened content moderation rules on the platform.
Ahmed, the only sanctioned individual currently living in the United States, filed an emergency appeal claiming his deportation would be unlawful and unconstitutional, arguing it would violate his First Amendment rights.
“Judge Broderick granted our request for a temporary restraining order so quickly because it is so obvious that Marco Rubio and the other defendants’ actions were blatantly unconstitutional,” his attorney Roberta Kaplan said in a statement.
“Americans should be grateful for our clients’ courageous work to combat antisemitism, racism, as well as efforts to harm young children on social media.”
“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,” she added.
Ahmed also issued a statement defending his censorship campaigns.
“I will not be bullied away from my life’s work of fighting to keep children safe from social media’s harm and stopping antisemitism online,” he declared.
Imran Ahmed bragged during testimony in front of the UK Parliament that his group had successfully spurred Google to stop monetizing The Gateway Pundit!
Imran said this during testimony before the UK Parliament in September 2021, when he bragged about working for over a year to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit.
Imran Ahmed: Another problem with the Bill is that it does not deal with the advertising market. Google has two parts to its advertising business. The first part is a display network and websites.
Google has about a third of all additional ad revenue, but 95% of the sites that you ever see that have ads on them have ads placed there by Google.
Google has chosen breadth over expense. They have an enormous display network and they gobble up sites and put them in there, including Gateway Pundit, which was spreading election misinformation—“The Big Lie”—Covid disinformation, and all sorts of malignant and anti-black narratives (what?), really horrific racist nonsense.
We found that, thanks to Google ads monetisation—Google takes advertising revenue from everywhere; I think we found Democratic Party adverts placed on Gateway Pundit, a viciously far right site, which just goes to show that, even for the advertiser, it is a terrible waste of money, and most of them are utterly frustrated when they find out about it—Google has become a primary funder of malignant, violent, racist, anti-Semitic, and Covid disinformation content on the internet.
I can give you an example of a site I first heard about through the Home Office’s counterterrorism office and which we targeted last year. It was covered in adverts for household brands.
We contacted each of those brands and got all their adverts taken off, and the site shut down after the ads disappeared. It just goes to show you that the advertising revenue from Google is vital to the proselytisation of hatred in our society.
Counterterrorism told us that they were concerned about it. Gateway Pundit raised millions of dollars of revenue from Google ads—$1.1 million in just seven months.
I am very proud to tell you that after our campaign Stop Funding Misinformation, that story was featured in Forbes magazine in the USA.
I think it was last weekend when Google took them off their display network after a year of campaigning by CCDH, and they are now demonetised, which means that they will not be able to spread their nonsense any further or at the scale and speed at which they were able to before. That is another thing that I am very proud of my team for.
There is even video of this Imran Ahmed’s testimony before the UK Parliament about how glad he was to push Google to demonetize The Gateway Pundit after a year of campaigning Google to do so.
Here is the Imran testimony—via Bad Kitty:
So now we have proof that Soros was funding a far-left British group to destroy The Gateway Pundit’s revenue base. And now a far left judge is blocked this demon’s deportation back to the UK.
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