International students sue after Trump administration terminates their legal status

International students involved in diplomas at Michigan State Universities

Students – two citizens of China, one from Nepal and another from India – filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Homeland Security (DHS) and immigration staff, claiming that their student immigration status in the student visitors and exchange (SEVIS) information system was illegal “without sufficient notice and explanation.

SEVIS is a database that tracks information about non -Migrant students and exchange of visitors in the United States

“According to the government, they no longer have a legal status in the US and they must immediately leave the country,” Ramigan Wadud, a lawyer at the US Civil Freedom Union (ACLU), told Michigan, which represents students, “ABC News told.

He noted that the students did not receive any grace period.

“You no longer have a status and you have to leave the country immediately,” Wadud said.

The complaint was lodged with the US District Court by ACLU of Michigan on behalf of students – Xiangyun Bu, Qiuyi Yang, Yogesh Joshi and Chinmay Deore. According to the complaint, in addition to the termination of their students’ immigration status, Jan and Joshi were told that their F-1 student visas that allow them to enter the country have also been canceled.

“None of them is charged, let alone convicted any crime in the United States,” the complaint said. “No one has violated any Immigration Act. Nor were they active in the campus protests with regard to every political issue.”

Students’ lawyers say during a hearing on Tuesday morning at the Detroit Federal Court of Temporary Restricting Order to restore their legal status and protect them from arrest or deportation as the case moves forward.

According to Wadood, the judge said he “acknowledges the emergency of the situation and said it would say soon.”

Wadood told ABC News on Monday that its customers were at risk of being arrested by immigration and customs application (ICE) and “frightened” and stopped showing the hours personally.

“Our clients are allowed to continue their education to the extent to which their teachers and their programs will settle,” Wadud said, adding that they are trying to resume their training remotely as “they are at risk of arrest and detention at any time.”

The lawsuit calls DHS secretary Christie November, acting in the position of ice director Todd Lyons and ice director of the Detroit field field Robert Lynch. ABC News turned to the officials, but the requests for comment were not returned immediately.

“DHS did not provide students or their schools with a meaningful explanation for termination of their F-1 status,” the complaint said. “The most that seems to connect students to this new and illegal policy is that students have met some meeting with some US law enforcement officer at a given time, no matter how harmless – including receiving a speeding ticket or parking ticket (or even a warning) or a legitimate withdrawal of an application for entry into the United States.”

The court records show four separate letters that each of the students has received from their future universities informing them that their student immigration status has been terminated. The reason, quoted by DHS in all cases, is “individual, identified when checking crime files”, and Jan and Joshi also say “and/or canceled visa”.

The Trump administration filed a response on Monday night on the claimant’s request for a temporary restraining order, calling on the judge to “refuse this request, as this is procedural and in substance incorrect.”

“An emergency proposal for a temporary restraining order can only be used to maintain the status quo; in this case it cannot be used to obtain the best plaintiffs for relief, which is the change in their SEVIS record,” the statement said.

The government also claims that on Monday, students have criminal records but do not provide additional details.

“DHS searched criminal records for each of the plaintiffs and the criminal history matches were returned to each of the plaintiffs,” his reply said.

Woodud denied that one of his clients had ever been charged or convicted of a crime. He said that by explaining their reference to “criminal files”, the government quoted three of its customers who were detained for alleged internal disputes.

They were subsequently released and not accused of crimes until a plaintiff “has no such speeding ticket or parking ticket” in his record, according to Wadood

“The criminal history of our plaintiffs is pure. They have no sentences, no accusations,” he said.

The federal case comes when the immigration repression of the Trump administration achieves higher education, which prompts a number of lawsuits against White House officials. Similar lawsuits have been brought throughout the country in states such as New Hampshire, Indiana and California.

According to Inside Higher ED, a publication that has been tracking news in higher education – from Tuesday over 180 colleges and universities have identified nearly 1,200 international students and recent university graduates who have changed their legal status from the State Department.

“If the courts do not end this arbitrary government, then generations of future international students will see what is happening today and decide:” Do you know what, it is probably not safe to go to the United States, “Woodud said.” And our academic institutions, our academic communities, will be so much. “

The Trump administration seems to be aimed at some international students with student visas and green card holders for their participation in prololest protests in colleges in colleges or for supposed criminal records.

“The visa is a gift. This is a voluntary thing. We decide to give you a visa,” said Secretary of State Marco Rubio during a press conference on March 28. “We deny visas around the world every day for various reasons, and that means we can cancel these visas as well. No one has a visa entitlement.”