The judge exploits the student visa endings of the Trump administration as ‘arbitrary and capricious’

The judge exploits the student visa endings of the Trump administration as 'arbitrary and capricious'

A federal judge criticized the termination of immigration records by the Trump administration for thousands of foreign students in the United States as “arbitrary and capricious”, demanding that the government provide detailed explanations of why and how records are completed and what this means for students.

“I think we all agree that it was arbitrary and capricious,” Judge Ana Reyes said about the Trump administration movement to finish the records of foreign students in the Visiting information system for students and exchanges (Sevis), a database that schools and government agencies used to confirm whether foreign students respect the conditions of their stay, during a judicial hearing for an international student case in Washington, DC, Tuesday.

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The building of the Department of Education in Washington, March 24, 2025.

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“This was not ideal for any stretch of the imagination,” he continued.

Akshar Patel, a computer student from India, sued the Trump administration after his recently completed Sevis record was completed based on a speeding ticket for a few years ago. The recent announcement of the Trump Administration is immediately restoring Sevis records for some international students whose records had been completed, Patel sought a preliminary court order to ensure that he can maintain his condition and will not be arrested or deported.

“I still stun that we are shooting tens of thousands of federal workers without prior notice and then take 10 to 20 of them to execute a lot of names through a database to see if there are students, if they have a record of speeding,” Reyes said.

Reyes, who supervises Patel’s case, did not rule on the motion of a preliminary court order of the bank on Tuesday after listening to the government that the legal status of Patel as a student has not been completed and does not face any immediate deportation threat. The judge suggested that the plaintiff and the government could find a language to guarantee the state of Patel in the United States.

During the Judicial Hearing, Andre Watson, a senior official of the National Security Division of National Security Research, explained that Patel was fired due to a speeding fine a few years ago, was one of the approximately 6,400 international students who were sent to the State Department after their team verified the records of almost 1.3 million international students through the National Crime Information Center to the information of the legal information as the center of legal information such as the center of legal information as the center Migrant Center, which is directed to a program of migrants of the orientation of the criminals, which is directed to a program of claims migrants, and dates back to the identification of migrants, and dates back to the identification of the information of the criminals, and dates back to the identification of the information of the criminals, and goes back to the orientation of the derivatives of the migrant center. We also have a criminal record.

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The students of the University of Delaware participate in a strike related to at least eight UD students with visas revoked on the sidewalk against Old College in Newark, on April 16, 2025.

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The thousands of international students who were referred to the State Department and subsequently returned to the National Security Department, including Patel, appeared in the NCIC database but did not necessarily have a criminal record. Watson did not elaborate how exactly the government reviewed the names to decide who marked.

The judge was very critical of the administration process of finishing the registries and immigration visas of these students, notifying particular the radical nature of the mass endings.

“After a careful consideration for 15 minutes, end everyone, right?” The judge questioned while walking through the government process of leaking through the students’ records and determining whose records will end. “Can you and I agree that nowhere in this whole process has someone done an individualized determination of any of these individuals before their names ended in Sevis?”

“I mean, nobody looked at Mr. Patel’s case and said that, yes, there is someone who should no longer be in the United States, right?” Reyes continued.

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President Donald Trump has an executive order related to education in the Oval Office of the White House, on April 23, 2025.

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By pointing out that Patel had only received an appointment in Texas for reckless driving, but they were never charged, Reyes said: “You and I agree that if we deported all individuals in this country who have taken a speed of speed, they would have very few people left, and almost everyone would not have a driver’s license.”

“You and I know that Mr. Patel is not a criminal, right?” She said, adding that Patel had even revealed the speeding ticket on her visa request. “The United States government had already evaluated this ticket for speeding and found that it was not a reason to get it out of the status.”

The American prosecutor Johnny Walker said that the termination of sevis was simply a “red flag” of the school that notified him about the student’s registration, saying that he depends on the school to finish the status of his student.

Photo: A group of international university students in Florida protest against federal funds and a campus police agreement to associate with the application of immigration and customs, on April 17, 2025, in Miami.

A group of international university students in Florida protest against federal funds and a campus police agreement to associate with the application of immigration and customs, on the FIU campus in a day of protests throughout the country in support of higher education, on April 17, 2025, in Miami.

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While Patel, who is scheduled to graduate in a few weeks, has continued to attend classes to finish their title, lawyers who represent other affected international students have said that some schools saw it more than a red flag, thinking that this meant that their students needed to leave the country.

While the bank’s rule decreases after government guarantees that the status of Patel students is active, the judge criticized the actions of the administration, describing it as a “total lack of concern for human individuals.”

“In addition to the total lack of concern for the human people who have invited our country and have made our communities richer for being students who have contributed to our universities and who have paid to our universities, the reason why they worry me and particular court, to obtain the information, and that is not cheap, right?” Reyes said.

“And all this could have been avoided if individuals had received a rhythm and, instead of simply hurrying,” he continued.

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