Trump Administration Backs Down On Student Visa Terminations, Restores Them | EUROtoday

Facing mounting courtroom losses over scholar visa revocations, the Justice Department introduced that it was backing down and would manually restore many scholar visas whereas it developed new coverage pointers for his or her elimination.

The shock reversal got here after 1000’s of overseas college students had their immigration data abruptly terminated within the federal system that retains monitor of them, which is maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE.

The terminations meant that the scholars have been instantly weak to deportation, with some unable to determine what they’d completed flawed. Some of the scholars seemed to be flagged for participation in pro-Palestine demonstrations whereas others had minor authorized infractions on their data, a lot of which had been thrown out.

The about-face marks an sudden defeat in President Donald Trump’s battle on immigration.

During a Friday morning listening to in federal court docket, a federal prosecutor learn an announcement from ICE noting it was “developing a policy that will provide a framework for SEVIS record terminations,” referencing the system that tracks college students’ immigration standing, referred to as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.

“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 re-activated 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,” the assertion continued, in response to WUSA9, a Washington CBS affiliate.

The similar assertion was learn in court docket in Oakland, California, in a associated case, The Associated Press reported.

More than 1,200 worldwide college students have had their immigration statuses upended since late March, in response to an AP depend.

Politico, nonetheless, reported that the quantity of scholar visas to be restored numbers within the 1000’s.