The Trump administration said it would restore legal status for hundreds of international students whose visas were canceled in recent weeks, a major policy reversal that follows a spate of lawsuits from students at US universities across the country who had been at risk of deportation.
A Justice Department lawyer told a federal judge in Washington on Friday that the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency will no longer revoke legal status for students due solely to checks against a national crime database, reading from a statement provided to Bloomberg News by a lawyer for some of the students. ICE ...
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