Yes, everyone in America is protected under the First Amendment. Once you leave the country you’re no longer protected. However, if you’re visiting here and say shit about say Myanmar, you’re not going to be protected after you leave the country. So in a way there still might be an informal form of self censureship if you’re not an American citizen. There’s also things that you can legally say that you shouldn’t. Like never use the N word if you’re not black. It might be legal to say, but you’re going to piss a lot of people off. Not being from America those unwritten rules might not be so clear.

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Freedom Forum
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Are Non-Citizens Protected by the First Amendment?
April 2, 2024 - Are non-citizens protected by the First Amendment? The answer isn't as clear-cut as you may think. Here's everything to know.
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Free Speech Center
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Aliens | The First Amendment Encyclopedia
July 2, 2024 - Although the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution makes no distinction between citizens and noncitizens, the Court has not always treated these groups the same.
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Just Security
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Explainer on First Amendment and Due Process Issues in Deportation of Pro-Palestinian Student Activist(s)
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Reddit
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r/AskAnAmerican on Reddit: Does the 1st amendment apply to US citizens only or anyone in the US?

Yes, everyone in America is protected under the First Amendment.

Once you leave the country you’re no longer protected.

However, if you’re visiting here and say shit about say Myanmar, you’re not going to be protected after you leave the country. So in a way there still might be an informal form of self censureship if you’re not an American citizen.

There’s also things that you can legally say that you shouldn’t. Like never use the N word if you’re not black. It might be legal to say, but you’re going to piss a lot of people off. Not being from America those unwritten rules might not be so clear.

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Maniatis Law PLLC
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Do Non-Citizens have Constitutional Rights? | Maniatis Law PLLC
January 10, 2025 - There is a misconception that the U.S. Constitution applies only to U.S. citizens. Some passages and phrases in our laws ... Immigration
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Stack Exchange
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constitutional law - Does the part of the First Amendment about Free Speech apply to non citizens everywhere? - Law Stack Exchange

Speech of foreign nationals is not treated the same as that of citizens.

In the case Buckley v. Valeo, 424 U.S. 1, the Supreme Court rules on the constitutionality of various statutory limits on campaign spending. Some parts of the law were upheld, others were overturned in 1st Amendment grounds. They upheld limits on contributions to candidates and volunteers' incidental expenses, and overturned limits on expenditures. In the decision, the court observed that

[n]either the right to associate nor the right to participate in political activities is absolute

and

"governmental 'action which may have the effect of curtailing the freedom to associate is subject to the closest scrutiny'"

The court stated that

Even a 'significant interference with protected rights of political association' may be sustained if the State demonstrates a sufficiently important interest and employs means closely drawn to avoid unnecessary abridgment of associational freedoms.

This is reasonably-standard strict scrutiny boilerplate language: what it remind you is that no Constitutionally-protected right is absolute, and all rights are subject to limitation, when that right conflicts with a compelling government interest. In the case of the federal contribution laws, that interest

is the prevention of corruption and the appearance of corruption spawned by the real or imagined coercive influence of large financial contributions on candidates' positions and on their actions if elected to office.

The court then found that

under the rigorous standard of review established by our prior decisions, the weighty interests served by restricting the size of financial contributions to political candidates are sufficient to justify the limited effect upon First Amendment freedoms caused by the $1,000 contribution ceiling.

52 USC 30121 imposes a prohibition which, if placed on US persons, would be held to violate the 1st Amendment. That law prohibits, among others,

a contribution or donation of money or other thing of value, or to make an express or implied promise to make a contribution or donation, in connection with a Federal, State, or local election

by "a foreign national", defined to not include lawful permanent residents but otherwise includes all foreign citizens and entities. The constitutionality of this law was challenged on First Amendment grounds but affirmed in Bluman v. Fed. Election Comm'n, 800 F. Supp. 2d 281 (written by Kavanaugh in his previous job), and upheld in a one-sentence affirmation by SCOTUS. So, 1st Amendment rights of foreign nationals are not protected to the same extent as those of US citizens.

It should be noted that the court also (expressly) did not decide if Congress could also constitutionally ban contributions by LPRs, or could prohibit foreign nationals from engaging in other forms of speech (issue advocacy and speaking on issues of public policy) – that matter was left undecided.

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Quora
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Why would foreigners have the same 1st amendment rights as American citizens? - Quora
Answer (1 of 21): Because of the words of First Amendment. It says: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition...
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Does the 4th Amendment to the United States Constitution protect people from searches conducted by private citizens? - Quora
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What does the 4th Amendment protect against? Does that change if you're not a US citizen, or are visiting from another country? - Quora
Answer (1 of 2): Presume that you’re referring to unreasonable searches a seizures. And yes, although it doesn’t protect everyone within the jurisdictional ambit of the US Constitution (such as convicted criminals on parole), it has been held to protect foreign nationals, although theoretically ...
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The Bill of Rights is a founding documents written by James Madison. It makes up the first ten amendments to the Constitution including freedom of speech and due process.
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r/AskAnAmerican on Reddit: Does a non-US citizen have same constitutional rights as an American?

This is a subject of hot legal debate, but the general consensus of the courts is that aliens posess pretty much exactly the same set of rights as Americans [bar ones reserved for citizens like voting] when within the United States.

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Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia
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ICE Acknowledges First Amendment Limits on Its Power to Remove Foreign Nationals | Knight First Amendment Institute
Fourth, the First Amendment limits the government’s ability to remove lawful permanent residents and non-U.S. persons from the United States for engaging in protected speech. And fifth, the First Amendment rights of U.S. citizens to hear from and assemble with non-U.S.
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What constitutional rights do undocumented immigrants have? | PBS News
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Fourth Amendment
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The Fourth Amendment originally enforced the notion that “each man’s home is his castle”, secure from unreasonable searches and seizures of property by the government. It protects against arbitrary arrests, and is the basis of the law regarding search warrants, stop-and-frisk, safety ...