If we're talking about Constitutional rights, such as those in the Bill of Rights, then yes, those apply to non-citizens. The Constitution protects persons, not just citizens.

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January 29, 2024 - Petition: A refugee from Haiti may ask the government to extend the length of their temporary protected status and to make it easier for other groups to get TPS and simplify the process for citizenship. The Constitution does not specify whether the First Amendment applies only to citizens.
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April 14, 2025 - Supreme Court precedents hold that aliens are entitled to lesser First Amendment protections while seeking to enter the United States, because an alien has no right to enter the country, as per United States ex rel.
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r/legaladviceofftopic on Reddit: Do non-citizens in American soil have the same rights as US citizens? Why or why not, and what are some cases where precedent was set regarding this?
January 27, 2025 - If we're talking about Constitutional rights, such as those in the Bill of Rights, then yes, those apply to non-citizens. The Constitution protects persons, not just citizens. ... Yeah pretty much every right except those reserved by citizens such as voting. ... Voting is absolutely a right ...
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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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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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Nevada Law Journal
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"Do Immigrants Have Freedom of Speech?" by Michael Kagan
The Department of Justice recently argued that immigrants who have not been legally admitted to the United States have no right to claim protections under the First Amendment. If the DOJ argument is right, then most of the 11 million unauthorized immigrants in the U.S. could be censored or ...
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Quora
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SECTION. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United ...
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2 weeks ago - In Valentine v. Chrestensen (1942), ... and business advertising matter", ruling the First Amendment protection of free speech did not include commercial speech. In Virginia State Pharmacy Board v. Virginia Citizens Consumer Council (1976), the Court overturned Valentine and ...
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Do foreigners living in the U.S. have first amendment rights of freedom of speech and expression according to the US Constitution? - Quora
Answer (1 of 6): Foreigners in the US have limited first amendment rights. In Bridges v. Wixon (1945) the Supreme Court quashed an order of deportation against a permanent resident who was accused of being affiliated with the Communist Party. The court found that Bridges was too loosely associate...
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Do All Immigrants Have Free Speech Rights?
March 27, 2025 - Most U.S. residents are entitled to freedom of expression, regardless of their citizenship status, but deportation is still a risk.