26-04-2025
Several Bay Area international students see visas reinstated
BERKELEY, Calif. (KRON) — In a big reversal, the federal government is reinstating visas for more than a thousand international students who had their legal status revoked.
This follows a wave of court challenges from all over the U.S.
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Students at University of California, Berkeley, Cal State East Bay, San Jose State University and Stanford University were affected.
San Jose State says six of the 13 students who had visas rescinded have had them reinstated. Cal State East Bay says 12 of 23 students have had their visas restored.
A Bay Area immigration attorney says this was about the Trump administration targeting students for using their freedom of speech at pro-Palestine protests — which he says is not legal.
'I believe we are starting to see the Trump administration see that they are not above the law as much as they have been attempting to be by these executive orders that are illegal and quite frankly unconstitutional,' says immigration attorney Gabriel Espinosa-Ramos.
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