Indian student is suing Trump administration on possible deportation of the US | Today news

In the midst of Trump administration’s immigration suppression, Chinmay Deore, an Indian student studying in the United States, along with three other foreign students, filed a lawsuit against the administration against their possible deportation. The students, who studied at the public universities in Michigan, took the legal route after their immigration status’ terminated ‘illegally’. The development comes amid Trump who renews his attack at top university Harvard, whose federal financing and tax release status he threatened to remove about the refusal to submit to the wide government’s supervision. Together with Deore, the Xiangyun Bu and Qiuyi Yang of China, and Nepal’s Yogesh Joshi filed the lawsuit against the Department of Home Security (DHS) and immigration officials on Friday, reports Pti. They said that their students immigration status in the student and the exchange of visitor information system (Sevis) was illegally terminated “without adequate notice and explanation”. Sevis is a database that detects non -immigrant students information and exchanges visitors in the US. They filed a federal lawsuit, along with a request for an emergency order on behalf of the students who terminated their F-1 student immigration status illegally and suddenly by the Trump administration, without any valid reason and without notice, the American Civil Liberties Union (Aclu) of Michigan said, who represented the student. “The lawsuit asks the court to reinstate the status of these students so that they can complete their studies and avoid facing the risk of detention and deportation,” it states. The complaint in court called DHS Secretary Kristi, acting ICE director Todd Lyons and the director of Ice Detroit Field Office, Robert Lynch. “None of them were charged with, let alone convicted any crime in the US. No one violated any immigration law. They were also not active in protests on campus regarding any political issue,” the complaint states. “DHS did not give the students or their schools a significant explanation to end their F-1 student status,” the complaint states. Ramis Wadood, staff attorney for the Michigan ACLU, said that these cruel and illegal government actions have real consequences. “Not only does status standards disrupt the lives of the students targeting; the actions of government will inevitably deter future international scientists to choose Michigan and the US as their academic destiny,” Wadood added. First published: 16 Apr 2025, 22:18 IST