BY C STONE | STONE NEWS NETWORK ||| WASHINGTON, D.C.
After many court challenges were filed against the Trump administration, international students will no longer have to leave the United States.
Using a federal database, Immigration authorities have backed away from revoking student visa's and have been flagged as illegal.
Panic ensued, and students around the United States of America feared they had to leave or be forcibly deported. Their schools also blocked their ability to continue taking courses, research, and even just weeks before graduating.
Judges were angry with the arbitrary action and unwillingness the government lawyers to say if students could continue to attend classes or had to leave immediately.
Over 100 lawsuits were launched, with judges in more than 50 of them - spanning 23 states. They ordered the administration to temporarily undo the actions.
From Politico:
ICE and State Department spokespeople did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
“ICE is developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations. Until such a policy is issued, the SEVIS records for plaintiff(s) in this case (and other similarly situated plaintiffs) will remain active or shall be reactivated if not currently active, and ICE will not modify the record solely based on the NCIC finding that resulted in the recent SEVIS record termination,” a Justice Department attorney said in court Friday, reading from a written statement he was authorized to make on ICE’s behalf.
“ICE maintains the authority to terminate a SEVIS record for other reasons, such as if the plaintiff fails to maintain his or her nonimmigrant status after the record is reactivated or engages in other unlawful activity that would render him or her removable from the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act,” the attorney said.
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