US President Donald Trump’s administration backtracked on the cancellation of student visas on April 25, when the US Justice Department told a federal court that officials were working on a new system for reviewing and terminating them. The volte-face gives a welcome relief to thousands of foreign students in the US, who not only faced an uncertain future at their universities but also faced deportation. The system before the reversal of policy, though it might be a temporary relief given Trump’s track record, was complex. US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) had been revoking the visas of a number of students for some time on the grounds of mostly minor legal infractions or........

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