The Stanford Daily newspaper filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration’s deportation policy on Wednesday.

Commentary writers for the independent student paper have “self-censored because of their rational concern about the ongoing danger of deportation for expression” that could be deemed “anti-American or anti-Israel,” according to the complaint. The anonymous writers are not employees of the paper.

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Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem are named in the suit and referred to as “censors.” As secretary of state, Rubio has the power to revoke visas for immigrants.

Rubio defended decisions to detain visa holders earlier this year, reminding them that they are “visitors” and “don’t have a right to be in the United States.” Rubio confirmed that visas would not be granted to people who are forthcoming about their views that are counter to U.S. foreign policy interests.

This lawsuit comes months after a Turkish Tufts University student, Rumeysa Ozturk, 30, was stopped on the street by Department of Homeland Security agents in plain clothes, and her arrest was captured on a street security camera. DHS officials claimed that Ozturk allegedly engaged in “activities in support of Hamas.”

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Before her arrest, Ozturk published an opinion piece a year ago in the student newspaper Tufts Daily, calling on school officials to “acknowledge the Palestinian genocide.” She was one of four co-authors.

After 75 days in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center, Ozturk was eventually released.