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   Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 00:41:31 JST Laffy

   To quote Maddow: "Oops."

   Pressure works.

   Keep 'em coming. 🧵

   Kyle Cheney:

   NEWS: After canceling thousands of foreign students' immigration records — threatening their ability to study and live in the US — the Trump administration has reversed course and restored them all.

   👉🏼It follows intense pushback from courts across the country 👈🏼

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:39:00 JST Laffy

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     2/ ICE had terminated the records of thousands of students from a federal database called SEVIS that tracks their legal status in the country. The effect of those terminations was in dispute, but many students said they had been barred from continuing their studies and were at risk of deportation.

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:39:09 JST Laffy

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     3/ The reason ICE appeared to have canceled their SEVIS records? Minor legal infractions that showed up in criminal history searches — which the law explicitly says is not a basis to deny a foreign student, studying on an F1 visa, their legal status.

     Now, after dozens of judges across the country flagged the likely illegality, ICE says it won't do that anymore.
     

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     Laffy (gottalaff@mstdn.social)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:39:23 JST Laffy

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     4/ Finally, still via Cheney:

     By my count, there had been 103 lawsuits filed in the last 20 days, and judges had issued 50 restraining orders requiring the Trump administration to reverse the terminations. Those decisions came in more than 23 states.

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     John Lusk (tarheel@mstdn.io)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:39:32 JST John Lusk

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     @GottaLaff

     Oh, hey, I found some waste, fraud, and abuse.

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     Paul_IPv6 (paul_ipv6@infosec.exchange)'s status on Saturday, 26-Apr-2025 01:39:36 JST Paul_IPv6

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     @GottaLaff

     "oh, you caught us blatantly breaking the law and ignoring judicicial orders? our bad. we promise not to do that any more..."

     sure. like "oh, well DHS was told not to do that so we had DOD do it instead..."