It Appears We Have Another Trump Climb-Down

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It now appears that Trump and his Evil Minions™ are restoring student visas that they had previously revoked.

So not surprised by this:

Thousands of international students studying in the United States whose immigration status was revoked by the Department of Homeland Security this month may now see that status restored.

On Friday, lawyers for the Trump administration said at a hearing that the Department of Justice planned to reactivate the immigration status of students whose status had been recently revoked, several media outlets reported.

Many of those students have already left the country. The unprecedented scale and lack of clear explanation for these changes left other students fearful that they might be next.

But signs that the Trump administration was backing down appeared on Thursday when college administrators doing a regular check of the government database known as SEVIS to see if any new students had lost their status noticed something new, according to one who asked to remain anonymous because they were not authorized by their college to speak to the media. Several students’ immigration status had been restored. When administrators checked a few hours later, several more students’ status had been restored. At the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, two of the three students whose immigration status had been changed saw their status restored on Friday, a spokesperson said.

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Hundreds of students sued the government, saying their offenses, if they had any, did not warrant the government pulling their ability to continue their studies in the United States. (The Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration also brought a lawsuit against the Department of Homeland Security and others.) So far, those students have notched wins in court. Last week, a federal judge in Georgia ordered Homeland Security to restore the immigration status of 133 students.

I think that what is going on here is that someone has realized DHI is on its way to losing those hundreds of court cases, and now they will come up with some bullsh%$ reasons and restart the process.

Still, I'll take the little win.