The judge detonated the termination of the Trump administrative student visa as ‘arbitrary and changed -changed’

A federal judge condemned the termination of Trump’s administrative immigration records for thousands of foreign students in the United States as “arbitrary and changed,” demanding that the government give a detailed explanation why and how the notes ended and what this means for students.
“I think we all agreed to be arbitrary and changed,” said Judge Ana Reyes about Trump’s administrative steps to end foreign student records at Student visitor information system and exchange (SEVIS), a database used by schools and government institutions to confirm if foreign students comply with the provisions of their residence, during a court trial for the case of international students in Washington, DC, on Tuesday.

Building Department of Education in Washington, March 24, 2025.
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“This is not ideal by any imagination,” he continued.
Akshar Patel, a computer science student from India, sued Trump’s administration after his new Sevis record was ended based on speeding tickets from a few years ago. In the heel of the new Trump administrative announcement that they returned Sevis’s notes to several international students whose notes had been ended, Patel sought a preliminary order to ensure he could maintain its status and would not be detained or deported.
“Still surprising my mind that we fired tens of thousands of federal workers without notice and then took 10 to 20 of them to run many names through the database to see if there were students – if they had a speeding record,” Reyes said.
Reyes, who oversees the Patel case, did not decide on a motion for court orders from the bench on Tuesday after hearing from the government that the legal status of Patel as a student had not ended and that he did not face the threat of direct deportation. The judge suggested that the Plaintiff and the government could come in language to ensure the status of patels in the United States.
During the trial of the court, Andre Watson, a senior official in the National Security Division of the Investigation of Domestic Security, explained that the patel ended because the ticket that drove fast from a few years ago, was one of the 6,400 international students who was referred to the Department of Foreign Affairs to the status proposed to Legoing from the national crime center that identified migrants as part of the alien program Alien Program Filled with migrants as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant program as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant program as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant program as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies migrants as part of the alien program that identifies the migrant program as part of the alien program. Identify migrants as part of the alien program from the alien status part. US which also has a criminal record.

Delaware University students participated in strikes related to at least eight UD students with visas that were revoked on the sidewalk in front of Old College in Newark, on April 16, 2025.
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Thousands of international students were referred to the Department of Foreign Affairs, and then returned to the Department of Domestic Security, including Patels, appearing in the NCIC database but did not always have criminal records. Watson did not explain how exactly the government combed the names to decide who was marked.
The judge is very critical of the administrative process to end the notes and immigration visas of these students, taking into account the broad nature of the mass termination.
“After being considered carefully for 15 minutes, stop everyone, right?” The judge questioned when he walked through the government filtering process through student records and determining the records of who would end. “Can you and I agree that there is no anywhere in this whole process, do anyone do the individual determination of one of these people before their names end in Sevis?”
“I mean, no one sees the case of Mr. Patel and says that, yes, this is someone who should no longer be in the United States, right?” Reyes continued.

President Donald Trump holds an executive order related to education at the White House Oval Office, April 23, 2025.
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Noticing that Patel only accepts quotes in Texas to drive recklessly but never was charged, Reyes said, “You and I am both agree that if we deport every individual in this country assigned to speed, there will be very few people left, and almost all of them will not have a driver license.”
“You and I are both know that Mr. Patel is not a criminal, right?” He said, adding that Patel even revealed speeding tickets in his vision petition. “The United States government has considered this speeding ticket and felt it was not a reason to drive him out of status.”
US lawyer Johnny Walker stated that the termination of Sevis was only a “red flag” for schools that told him about student records, saying that it depends on the school to end the student’s status.

A group of Florida International University students protested federal funds and agreements by campus police to partner with immigration and customs enforcement, on the FIU campus on protest days throughout the country to support higher education, on April 17, 2025, in Miami.
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While Patel, who is scheduled to graduate in a few weeks, continues to attend the class to complete the title, a lawyer who represents international students who are affected by other affected say some schools see it more than just a red flag – thinking this means their students need to leave the country.
While refusing to rule from the bench after the guarantee of the government that the status of students is active, the judge criticizes administrative actions, describing it as “lack of attention to individual human beings.”
“Apart from the lack of concern for the individuals of humans we have invited to our country and who have made our community richer by becoming students who have contributed to our tertiary institutions and who have paid our universities – the reasons that I am concerned and especially the problem are because the Plaintiff, as must be paid by the lawyer, as must be paid by the lawyers, and must have a hug to the lawyer who must to be paid.
“And all this can be avoided if people have beat and not just in a hurry,” he continued.