Students, professors react to the reversal of the status of international students

Tricia McLaughlin, a deputy secretary for home protection, said that ICE did not reverse the course in Visa revocations, but “restored Sevis access to people who had not revoked their visa”.

Christina Diiorio Sterling, spokeswoman for the US public prosecutor in Massachusetts, said on Friday that the office “works through ice and closely with them to determine the next steps for the affected cases in our district”.

However, the reversal issued a new round of questions for students, professors and others, whose academic life was taken up by the hard attitude of President Trump to immigration. On Friday, lawyers and academics warned that exhaustion could be temporary and warned that further uncertainty is ahead of us.

“This was a chaos that created a climate of fear, fear and uncertainty,” said Miriam Feldblum, Managing Director of President -Alliance for Higher Education and Immigration. Your organization recently sued the dismissals because it has no basis for the federal regulation and violated the proper procedure of the fifth change.

The judges across the country had already granted temporary orders that had restored the records of some students to the Sevis database.

Zhennan Yuan, a 24-year-old doctoral student at Northeastern University in Boston, whose legal status was “terminated” abruptly when ICE removed his documents from Sevis, was given a temporary injunction at the beginning of this month, which prevented the government from arresting or deporting it.

He said that Northeasters had aware of him on Thursday that his Sevis status was restored.

“I have the feeling that it is a solid victory. It is definitely a small step towards justice,” said Yuan. “I can finally say that I’m legal here. I’m not worried that I will be deported or arrested.”

In the past few weeks, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Trump government abruptly has terminated the legal status of almost 5,000 international students and scientists across the country, and triggered the fear of deportation on campus across the country.

Mahsa Khanbabai, a immigration lawyer based in Massachusetts, said that the Trump government temporarily “had” because of the large chaos they did “.

“But don’t make a mistake to plan to continue with it. As you said in your explanation, you will find a policy about how you can destroy the lives of these students instead of doing so by chance to do the way you were,” she said.

Khanbabai said she had been in contact with up to 50 students who are affected by the revocations and are now beginning to restore their status.

“We have to be very careful and careful and be prepared that we have to continue the legal dispute when they finally come out of a new policy,” she said.

Khanbabai said that she did not expect the reversal for students whose visa “because of her advocacy for Palestinian questions or other political, ideological problems”, as her client Rümysa Öztürk, a student of the Tuffs University, who can revoke her visa in March and arrested from the Federal immigration authors.

“We do not expect the students who have operated propalestinic protests to be stopped again,” she said.

Others pointed out that this is not solved by the problems of international students, whose visas were also revoked, which is a different legal problem than in the Sevis database.

Tufts University said that until late Friday morning, three of nine students whose SeviS recordings were canceled were reactivated.

“The reactivated records were discovered through ongoing surveillance; the university was not notified by the government. We continue to monitor the situation,” said Tufts spokesman Patrick Collins in a statement.

Officials from Boston University, Harvard, Rivier University and the University of New Hampshire said that some international students had their Sevis status restored.

Other international students, whose position in Sevis has ended, are still waiting for clarity. For example, the doctor of Dartmouth College Xiaotian Liu has won a temporary postponement of a federal judge after being dropped out of Sevis.

But Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Hampshire, who represents Liu, said it was too early to say how the latest developments would have a similar effect.

“In the coming days we have to confirm whether (affected students) who did not sue the government have fully reactivated their student status,” he said.

Feldblum said groups like theirs should advance their complaints because their questions about the underlying actions of the government remain unsolved, and also because the reversal does not reverse the damage that these students caused.

“In addition, there is no certainty that the administration will not try to restore the directive in the future,” said Feldblum.

In fact, some supporters fear that some of the effects of Trump’s actions are irreversible.

Julia Gelatt, deputy director of the US immigration policy program at the Migration Policy Institute, said that the reversal was “welcome messages”, but “the damage could already be caused to make the United States a less attractive goal for talented international students.”

In this report, material from Globe Wire Services was used. Shelley Murphy from the Globus employee and correspondent Emily Spatz contributed to this report.

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