Posted on 04/20/2025 10:17:50 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Four American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) affiliates filed a lawsuit on April 18 asking a federal court to reinstate the legal status of international students who have had their visas revoked.
Multiple ACLU affiliates and the law firm Shaheen & Gordon filed a federal class action lawsuit representing more than 100 foreign students in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Maine, Rhode Island, and Puerto Rico who they say had their F-1 student immigration status “unlawfully and abruptly terminated with no specified reason as to why.”
The students include several at Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design, who had their student status revoked in recent weeks. The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate their F-1 student status, which would allow them to continue their studies.
“International students are a vital community in our state’s universities, and no administration should be allowed to circumvent the law to unilaterally strip students of status, disrupt their studies, and put them at risk of deportation,” Gilles Bissonnette, legal director of the ACLU of New Hampshire, said in a statement.
Several students have already sued, arguing they were denied due process. In New Hampshire, Wisconsin, and Montana, federal judges have granted temporary restraining orders to shield the students from deportation.
According to the April 18 lawsuit, which was filed in New Hampshire federal court, the affected students said they were not notified before their F-1 student statuses were canceled, opening them up to deportation and preventing them from finishing their studies.
The complaint states that one of the students, Manikanta Pasula of India, was close to finishing his master’s in computer science at New Hampshire’s Rivier University and was working to apply for an international student work program that would allow him to stay in the United States.
Another student, Hangrui Zhang of China, was in a Ph.D. program in electronic and computer science at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, and says he now can no longer work as a research assistant, his only income source, the complaint said.
The lawyers representing the students said the government did not give the required advance notice, informing the foreign students that their legal status would be terminated.
On March 27, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the State Department may have revoked more than 300 visas so far.
“Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” Rubio said.
He said the reason is ”because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we’re not going to give you a visa.”
Rubio said he is canceling visas for those who were acting in opposition to national interests, such as those who had protested Israel and its military action in Gaza or others facing criminal charges.
One high-profile case included former Columbia University graduate student and activist Mahmoud Khalil, who was slated for deportation after leading several pro-Palestinian protests on campus.
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Did anyone on our side ever sue the Biden administration ?
Isn’t a Visa like an invitation to enter your home? Then, you think! Screw that I don’t want you in my house. Goodbye.
The ACLU is a domestic terrorist organization.
Legal terrorists, but terrorists nonetheless.
No other country on earth has judges that think that foreign nationals have some sort of ‘right’ to be there.
Visas exist solely at the pleasure of the State Department and can be revoked at any time and for any or no reason.
ACLU has no standing. So they can just ESAD.
If they did I never read about it or heard it on the news
I hope to hell that there’s no federal funding going to the ACLU...
Carter and the Iranian. nursing students in TN
Their parents were begging them not to come home as their lives were in danger
Shaheen and Gordon, as in retiring Senatrix Jeanne Shaheen?
Murrow Bldg
There are a lot of universities in each of India and China where they can transfer and finish their studies.
If they are being expelled for participating in anti-American protests or for forcing Jewish students or professors to stay away from campus, they do not belong in the USA at all.
Well the USSC has gone full traitor to the US. So no help will come there.
Ken Paxton.
Over 100 times.
He won the majority of them.
It’s supposed to be the American Civil Liberties Union. So why are they concerned with the civil liberties of people who are not Americans?
Ping
It has always been the American Communist Civil Union.
They were formed to destroy civil rights by hyper enforcement.
Likewise the Southern Poverty Law Center.
Likewise the Southern Poverty Law Center.
They say no. I bet they do though if 'contributions' come via any NGO. Lawyers are well practiced in the art of lying.
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