Hey! A bit of backtracking? Good move, if so. It will seem like a return to normality, I think. It will make students from other countries keep their heads down...I wonder if that was the intent..assuming there was an intent.
www.nbcnews.com
The Trump administration is restoring the legal status of international students who had their records terminated in recent weeks, a government attorney said Friday at a hearing.
Elizabeth D. Kurlan, an attorney for the Justice Department, said during the hearing in the Northern District of California in Oakland that records for international students will be reactivated for the time being, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement crafts a new policy that will “provide a framework for status record termination.”
The move comes weeks after the Trump administration began revoking the visas of some thousands of international students in addition to their records and legal statuses, seemingly taking aim at those who’ve participated in political activism or have had previous charges, like DUIs.
“ICE still maintains the authority to terminate a SEVIS record for other reasons," Kurlan said at the hearing, referring to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, "such as if a student 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.”
Administration is restoring international students' legal statuses while ICE develops 'framework' for visa terminations
“It’s like somebody flipped a light switch on,” said one attorney whose client had their status suddenly reversed.
www.nbcnews.com
The Trump administration is restoring the legal status of international students who had their records terminated in recent weeks, a government attorney said Friday at a hearing.
Elizabeth D. Kurlan, an attorney for the Justice Department, said during the hearing in the Northern District of California in Oakland that records for international students will be reactivated for the time being, as Immigration and Customs Enforcement crafts a new policy that will “provide a framework for status record termination.”
The move comes weeks after the Trump administration began revoking the visas of some thousands of international students in addition to their records and legal statuses, seemingly taking aim at those who’ve participated in political activism or have had previous charges, like DUIs.
“ICE still maintains the authority to terminate a SEVIS record for other reasons," Kurlan said at the hearing, referring to the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, "such as if a student 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.”
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