The Trump administration returns the status of legal immigration to thousands of foreign students | International
New round of 180 degrees of the Donald Trump administration, for the moment. The United States government will return the Visa recording to thousands of foreign students To those who had deleted them with the topic that had committed a sort of infringement, although in most cases they were very mild or non -existing. Do not say in that register put people affected at risk of expulsion.
The Department of Justice has announced the change in a declaration to various federal courts, after receiving a case after the request and dozens of judicial vessels against their decision this month of Remove thousands of students from records of the immigration agency and customs control (ICE) which confirm its legal status within the United States. Often, ICE did not even communicate with the people affected by having taken his name from that database.
Many of the affected people feared they were deported Or having to leave the country suddenly, in most cases a few weeks after finishing the path or even having completed his degree, in a situation that had generated a generalized psychosis in numerous universities and other centers of study. Some of the complaints denounced that they had stopped attending the lesson or that they could not complete the course because, not to appear in the registers, the study centers canceled their recordings.
In total, over a hundred requests had been submitted in 23 states, in which in more than half of the cases the judges responsible for the case had ordered the administration to return the names of the complaints to the registers. In dozens of other cases, the magistrates prepared to issue similar phrases before Friday.
The Department of Justice explains that Ice is working on a new policy on foreign students. Until it is completed, no student permit will be deleted “only” because crimes or minor charges appear in their history.
“Ice is developing a policy that will provide a framework for the cancellations of the names in the Sevis Register. Until this policy is completed, the registers remain active or reactivated and Ice will not change them only because they have found Fales”, says the communication of the department.
Almost 1.1 million foreign students appear in that register, which centralizes the data to determine that students meet the conditions of their visa, of the F-1 type, in terms of recording and assistance to courses, progress towards graduation, good behavior and other requirements. If they do not respect them, if the bad notes make impossible for them to approve the degree, if they leave their studies, if they start working illegally or if they commit crimes for example -they are eliminated by the record and their visa is canceled.
Since Trump took power on January 20, over 4,700 register of the register have been collected, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association. The administration claimed to be able to eliminate them whether to review the database discovered that she had a criminal history, but the sueds denounce that in their cases the irregularities were simple administrative faults or the accusations were removed because they had no basis.
The announcement of the Department of Justice has no effect in the cases of other students in which the State Department has canceled the visa for participating in adequate events or activities that the Trump administration considers dangerous for national security and which support the Islamist radical group Hamás.
In a declaration, the spokesman of the National Security Department, Tricia McLaughlin, said that the revoked visas will not be restored. The new step, he said, has restored registration only to Sevis “for people who have not been deleted the visa”.
