Trump DOJ Backs Down On Cancelling International Student Visas: 1,500 Will Be Restored

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Anonymous wrote:After being sued by individual international students whose visas were terminated and facing a class action suit from a group of others, the administration once again caved in and backtracked on an issue that were on the wrong side of.

The Trump administration said on Friday that it is restoring the previously terminated legal statuses of hundreds of foreign students in the United States while it develops a new policy that will provide a framework for potentially ending them in the future. The decision was announced during a court hearing before a federal judge in Boston who is presiding over a challenge by one of the many international students across the country who is suing over actions the administration took against them as part of Republican President Donald Trump's hardline crackdown on immigration.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-restore-foreign-students-legal-status-now-2025-04-25/

This is why every stupid or illegal action should be challenged. He is a wimp and bully, so poke him in the nose and he will back down. Don't give him an inch.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow so many are taking away from hardworking American students sad. Hopefully the outrage of all those rejected from ivies and other schools will be channeled for a 3rd trump term.

Foreign students are full pay and help support universities while American students often receive financial assistance. Foreign students aren't taking spots, they are actually making spots for American students.

There's room for both.

Wrong, there are more than quadruple full pay Americans seeking entry , no need to allow these people when the acceptance rate and full pay is so high. America first.

Provide evidence for your claim.

Admittance into top colleges is a zero sum game. Every slot taken by a foreign student is one that could have gone to a US citizen.

You're free to make your own college instead of waiting for a DEI handout for low talent US citizens.

Like JD Vance?

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Anonymous wrote:Soft diplomacy! Many stay and contribute, pay taxes, innovate (Elon is one of them for whatever that is worth). Others go back home, but with a mindset more open to American values and ideas. And they contribute billions to the economy while they are here. And ultimately, this system has attracted the very best minds and researchers from all over the world to the US - a system that is right now being actively destroyed on multiple fronts (visa threats, radical cuts in grant funding etc.). America first down the drain?

Since we run a tax deficit more people paying taxes just means more people consuming services. Taking grants to do research etc. Are they really open minded. At least one of the 911 terrorists was on a student Visa others were on business visas. Stop and think where we would be at as a country if we didn't have that around our neck eg dollars spent on war and security concerns.

That is a real bad thing. I'd trade several Elon's to make that have not happened.

George Bush was already looking for any pretext to start those wars. He used an attack from Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia as an excuse to invade unrelated Iraq.

The attack itself was perpetuated by a US-funded groups. Visas aren't the problem here.

Yet, there they are organizing political protests on campuses.

I would suggest the visas are not the answer in the same vein. Very little benefit for Americans. No, making Elon's isn't good for me. I'd be perfectly happy if he went away, and took Google, Meta and Apple with him.

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Some insight into why the Trump admin backed down on this issue.

Why Trump Backed Down on Foreign Student Visas

“It took more than 100 lawsuits and 50 restraining orders from dozens of federal judges. But after 20 days of court losses, the Trump administration capitulated, reversing a decision that threatened the legal status of thousands of foreign students in the United States,” Politico reports.

“The Trump administration’s abrupt move tacitly acknowledged what judges in two dozen states had been saying since early April: Terminating university students’ immigration records from a federal database — a step which appeared to jeopardize their legal authorization to remain in the country — was almost certainly illegal. And it was implemented so ham-handedly that judges felt compelled to intervene.”

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He may have reinstated their visas but now they can’t they leave the country because they probably won’t be let back into the country if they try to return. They will just be put onto a plane and made to fly back to their countries.