A federal judge in California issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on Thursday to prevent further terminations of the legal statuses of international students living and working across the US.

Judge Jeffrey S. White of the US District Court of the Northern District of California stated that President Donald Trump’s administration acted “arbitrarily and capriciously” and that the injunction would provide international students with “a measure of stability and certainty.” Judge White found the plaintiffs suffered “irreparable harm,” as despite the reinstatement of their Student Exchange and Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records, they do not know if they could be cancelled again.

The judge reasoned that nationwide relief was justified on the basis that the Student Criminal

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