By Alia Wong, Associated Press
Washington (AP) – A collective appeal filed Friday asks a Federal Court to restore the legal status of international students who were stripped of their visas in a repression of the Trump administration which left more than a thousand deportation.
The prosecution filed by several affiliates of the civil civil liberties Union seeks to represent more than 100 students in New England and Porto Rico.
“International students are a vital community in the universities of our state, and no administration should be authorized to bypass the law to unilaterally strip status students, disrupt their studies and endanger them,” said Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the New Hampshire ACLU.
In the country’s schools, students saw their visa revoked or their legal status terminated, generally with little notice.
About 1,100 students in more than 170 colleges, universities and university systems have been assigned since the end of March, according to a review by the Associated Press of university declarations, correspondence with school officials and judicial files. The AP strives to confirm the reports of hundreds of other students affected.
The students filed other proceedings arguing that they were refused a regular procedure. Federal judges granted temporary ban prescriptions in New Hampshire, Wisconsin and Montana, protecting students from efforts to remove them from the United States
Applicants for the new trial, filed with the New Hampshire Federal Court, learned without warning that their F-1 students’ statutes had been terminated, doubting their ability to stay in the country and finish their studies, according to the complaint.
One of them, Manikanta Pasula of India, was on the brink of computer science at Rivier University in New Hampshire and the possibility of staying in the country thanks to a work program for international students. Hangrui Zhang of China had come to the United States for a doctorate. Electronic and computer program at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts. Now he cannot work as a research assistant, who was his only source of income, said the complaint.
The government has not noted that it is required to provide before ending the legal status of a foreign student, lawyers said.
The Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to a message asking for comments.
Last month, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that the State Department revoked visas held by visitors who acted against national interests, some of whom protested the Israel War in Gaza and those facing criminal charges.
In some large-scale cases, such as that involving the militant of the University of Columbia, Mahmoud Khalil, the Trump administration cited participation in pro-Palestinian activism as a justification for expulsion.
But the colleges say that most of the students affected by the revocations of the visas did not play any role in these events. Many are designated by minor offenses such as traffic offenses occurring a long time ago, and in some cases the reason is not clear, according to colleges.
The journalist of AP Christopher L. Keller contributed to this Albuquerque report, in New Mexico.
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