An Indian origin student, Chinmay Deore along with two Chinese and one Nepalese student has sued the US Department of Homeland Security and immigration officials.
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00:00This Indian-origin student along with three others have sued the Donald Trump administration.
00:04Their allegation is that their student immigration status was illegally terminated
00:08from the Students and Exchange Visitor Information System, SEVIS.
00:12India's Chinmay Deore filed the lawsuit with two Chinese and one Napoli student
00:15against the Department of Homeland Security and immigration officials last week.
00:19Chinmay is a student of Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
00:22They said to the court that neither were they charged with any crime
00:25nor did they violate any immigration laws.
00:27They were also not a part of any on-campus protests.
00:30Trump's administration has cracked down on foreign students in the US
00:33over alleged campus activism.
00:35Since Trump took office on January 20, 2025,
00:38more than 4,700 students have been deleted from SEVIS.
00:42Earlier this year, another Indian-origin student, Ranjani Srinivasan,
00:45self-reported themselves after their student visa was revoked
00:48for participating in pro-Palestinian protests.