Several Indian students impacted by deportation rulings

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Several Indian students and other South Asians studying in the US have been impacted by the latest wave of deportation orders against foreign students.

Among them is Chinmay Deore in Michigan and Krish Lal Isserdasani in Wisconsin, cases that have emerged after the first high profile incident in March, when Columbia University student Ranjani Srinivasan fled to Canada in what was described by Department of Homeland Security chief Kristi L. Noem as a case of self-deportation.

The ACLU of Michigan filed a federal lawsuit April 10, along with a request for an emergency injunction, on behalf of four international students attending Michigan universities who have had their F-1 student immigration status terminated. The case filed by ACLU, a copy of which is available with the press release, names Chinmay Deore of India, Yogesh Joshi of Nepal and Xiangyun Bu and Qiuyi Yang of China as the plaintiffs challenging Noem and other DHS officials for what ACLU Michigan describes, “unlawfully and abruptly” terminating their status, saying the action “violates the law.”

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“The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate the status of these students so that they will be able to complete their studies and avoid facing the risk of detention and deportation,” ACLU Michigan said in a press release.

In the case of Isserdasani, according to news reports, a federal judge temporarily blocked the 21 year-old’s deportation. Isserdasani, an engineering student, is expected to graduate within a matter of next few weeks. His preliminary injunction hearing is set for April 28, according to a USA Today report.

The ACLU Michigan maintains in Deore et al case that the government is required to have specific legal grounds to terminate a student’s status. “For that to happen, the student, for example, must fail to take full courses of study, engage in unauthorized employment, or be convicted of a violent crime,” and none of these apply in the case of the four students, the civil liberties organization says.

According to an April 19 CNN report, the American Immigration Lawyers Association was informed that ICE has targeted as many as 4,700 students for deportation. AILA said that a survey among more than 300 of its lawyers showed that half of their clients were Indians trying to fight the deportation. The reasons for revocation of their standing were for minor infringements such as speeding tickets for going only about 10 miles above the limit, or parking tickets, an AILA representative said in the CNN report.

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