AK<p>Universities Told Students to Leave the Country. ICE Just Said They Didn’t Actually Have to (The Intercept, 2025-04-17)</p><p><a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/04/17/international-student-visas-deport-dhs-ice/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">theintercept.com/2025/04/17/in</span><span class="invisible">ternational-student-visas-deport-dhs-ice/</span></a><br>———</p><p>“In their haste to comply with apparent directives from Trump, universities became unwitting handmaidens of the deportation machine.”</p><p>“The Department of Homeland Security … does not have the authority to terminate students’ immigration statuses by terminating their records in the Student Exchange and Visitor Information System [SEVIS].”</p><p>“Under pressure from <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ICE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ICE</span></a>, schools have been advising students they are out of status after <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/SEVIS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SEVIS</span></a> record termination, and in many cases disenrolling them …”</p><p>“The <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/DHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DHS</span></a>’s latest claims to the contrary … are sure to only sow further confusion, but they are strong grounds … for schools to immediately stop disenrolling students believed to be out of status …”</p><p><a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ComplianceIsCollaboration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComplianceIsCollaboration</span></a> <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/ComplianceIsComplicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComplianceIsComplicity</span></a></p>