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The Trump administration is declining a multi-state legal struggle concerning radical actions taken by American immigration and the application of customs that have potentially put an end to the immigration status of thousands of international students who study in the United States.
Friday, the dramatic quarter of work was announced in legal proceedings across the country and follows a wave of legal action filed by students who declared that their legal status was canceled without explanation.
Lawyers of the Ministry of Justice said that court officials were trying to create a new system to examine and end the files of international students, known as Sevis, which are linked to their immigration status. A statement read aloud before the court and provided to student lawyers said that “ice develops a policy that will provide a framework for the registered layoffs of Sevis”. In addition, officials said that they would not base cancellations solely on the question of whether a student gets up in a excavation of the National Crime Information Center.
In the meantime, officials have said they would stop issuing new revocations according to this research until the end of the process.
Friday evening, more than 240 accounts of Sevis had been restored in 64 different schools, according to a preliminary CNN count. Lawyers representing students who have taken legal action in New Hampshire, Georgia and Pennsylvania also told CNN that their customers received opinions for reinstateing their schools.
On Friday, during a hearing, a lawyer for the Ministry of Justice said that Ice was restoring the files of all the students who had been dismissed in this process, not only those who had filed prosecution.
However, lawyers have said that ice will continue to be discreet to terminate students’ files in other cases.
“Ice still maintains the power to terminate a Sevis file for other reasons,” the DoJ said in a new declaration submitted in judicial cases. “As if a student does not maintain his status of non-immigrant after reactivating the file or engages in another illegal activity which would make him removable from the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act.”
In dozens of cases across the country, international students continued the administration for ice efforts to cancel their immigration files in the Sevis database.
The database, which is operated by the Ministry of Internal Security, follows the immigration status of international students and is used by universities to maintain information on the registration of students.
Sevis revocations occurred alongside the cancellations of visas for many students, ultimately putting them at risk of expulsion, said several lawyers representing students in court documents. The DoJ continues to claim that SEVIS changes have not caused visa terminations.
The Trump administration began to cancel the visas and launched the expulsion procedure in March, which initially targeted students who participated in demonstrations against the War of Israel-Hamas on university campuses last year.
The application blitz has caused the panic and fear of international students, resulted in certain detentions and at least two self-supporting. A few weeks later, immigration officials began to revoke the immigration statutes of students on minor legal offenses and, in some cases, without any apparent explanation.
Several federal judges have interrupted some of the revocations and have issued banning orders to ensure that students are not withdrawn from the country.
Affairs has revealed that the ice justified the layoffs of the files by arguing that students had alleged “criminal history”, including arrested and never charged students, or who have rejected their accusations.
While the Restoration of Student States is likely to calm Fears Among Thousands of International Students who worrried the Revocation of Their Status Would Put Them at Risk for Deportation It Does Not Appear To Impact Other International Students Whose Visas Were Revoked, Including Rumeysa Ozturk, the TUFTS Who was arrested Near Her Home in Massachusetts, and Mahmoud Khalil, The Columbia University Graduate and Permanent Legal Resident who Was Arrested Near His Home On Campus after being accused of engaging in Hamas.
The falsification of file ice place thousands of international students in limbo
In recent weeks, ICE has seemed to cancel the students’ statutes for minor legal offenses, including drunkenness and traffic offenses, according to several prosecution filed to stop cancellations, some students who have seen canceled files even if they had never been recognized as a crime. Students like the researcher graduated from the University of Dartmouth, Xiaotian Liu, a Chinese national who has been studying computer science and who has been in the United States since 2016. Liu status has been changed without notice earlier this month, even if he has never committed crime or traffic violation, according to his lawyer. A judge recently made a prohibition order to prevent any government action on Liu.
“It is clear that the deluge of legal deposits and initial judicial decisions in New Hampshire and national have had a deep impact on the government’s decision to reactivate the sevis files of certain students and allow them to continue their studies,” said Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the New Hampshire Aclu, who represents Liu. “Many questions remain, including the criteria that will be used for these reactivations and if this will apply to students who have not brought prosecution.”
The vast majority of students who have had their visas and the statutes dismissed have not been held or expelled, but they declared that the revocation of the status prevented them from taking their courses and working in their jobs related to the campus, which in turn threatens their immigration status.
Foreign students, who generally have an F-1 visa, are required to meet specific criteria to maintain their status, including full-time courses and no outside jobs.
According to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, some 4,700 students saw their files changed as part of the administration gambit.
“The ice is now officially withdrawing from its disastrous and harmful actions that ended nearly 5,000 students with visas, but only after Aila members and others have deposited dozens of prosecution,” said Gregory Chen, principal director of government relations. “Although the ice removes its massive error now relieves thousands of people, there are still long -term damage that continues to harm these students and their families as well as to American universities, research institutions and businesses.”
While the administration maintains that its reintegration of files should defuse the legal fighting which quickly move on the layoffs of SEVIS, at least one judge continued on Friday to probe the actions of the administration.
The main district judge Jeffrey White, who is in San Francisco, requests that the administration will submit additional information on the new declaration. He also burned the DOJ lawyers on several questions which he had asked them to prepare before the hearing.
Student lawyers, on the other hand, argued that ICE’s announcement was not addressed to all the questions that had arisen due to the dismissal of the files.
One of these lawyers, John Sinodis described the new ice declaration of “terribly inadequate” because he asked what it would mean for students who left the country because their files had been dismissed. Would they be given a new visa to return, he asked. Will the ice stop and relax those whose visas have been dismissed?
The judge himself seemed skeptical as to the fact that the problems which had grasped him had been fully resolved, pushing when an MJ lawyer urged him to consider that there was a “new world order” with the announcement on Friday.
“It seems that, from this administration, there is a new world order every day,” said judge White.
Taylor Galgano de CNN and Caroll Alvarado contributed to this report.
This story has been updated with additional developments.