Four international students from Michigan public universities, including an Indian student, have filed a federal lawsuit against the US Department of Homeland Security ( DHS) in an effort to re-enter their immigration status after it allegedly was terminated without proper notice or justification.
The US government’s collection, SEVIS, which tracks nonresident students, is used by Chinmay Deore from India, Xiangyun Bu, Qiuyi Yang from China, and Ashish Joshi from Nepal to protest the abrupt withdrawal of their F-1 student visa. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Michigan, which also requested an urgent order, represents the kids.
The ACLU stated in a declaration that the lawsuit asks the court to restore the position of these individuals so that they won’t have to endure detention and deportation.
The students were not given any true justifications for the termination, and they never engaged in any legal proceedings or campus protests, according to the complaint. In the US, none of them have been charged with, let alone found guilty of, any violence. No one has broken any immigration rules. They have not participated in any social demonstrations on campus, it stated.
Robert Lynch, Robert Lynch, Todd Lyons, and Kristi Noem, the lawsuit’s plaintiffs, are named in the complaint. It asserts that terminations may have been brought on by minor or constitutional relations with law enforcement, such as transportation violations or requests for withdrawn access.
According to the lawsuit,” Government did not give the kids or their institutions any meaningful justification for ending their F-1 status.”
The situation is one of a growing number of legal issues that focus on the immigration enforcement practices in place under Trump, which still have an impact on foreign students. In states like New Hampshire, Indiana, and California, related lawsuits have been filed.
The ACLU of Michigan staff attorney Ramis Wadood said,” These violent and improper government actions have real-life effects.” The president’s actions will unavoidably deter future foreign scholars from choosing Michigan and the US as their intellectual place.” Status terminations don’t simply destroy the lives of the students being targeted.
