Trump administration backs down on terminating thousands of student visa records
CBSN
The Trump administration unexpectedly reversed course on terminating the student visa registrations of thousands of foreign students in the U.S., a government lawyer said in federal court on Friday.
Appearing before the federal district court in Washington, D.C., a Justice Department attorney said more than 4,700 students would have their student visa records reinstated, according to attorney Brian Green, who represents a plaintiff in one of the dozens of lawsuits challenging the registration terminations.
Those students had been affected by a mass termination of records in a government student visa system, known as SEVIS, administered by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The effort appeared to have targeted foreign students with minor legal infractions, some of which had been dismissed, according to court documents.
