A judge denied a temporary restraining order for seven international students from Indiana who sued the federal government after their visas were revoked.
The students, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana, say the Department of Homeland Security violated their Fifth Amendment due process rights.
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Judge James Hanlon of the Southern District of Indiana wrote in his order that the students didn’t make the “the showing necessary for the Court to grant such immediate, extraordinary relief.”
Six of the students are from China, five of whom attend Purdue. The other attends IU Indianapolis. Another student is from Nigeria and attends Notre Dame.
Their request claimed the students would suffer irreparable harm if the visa revocations weren’t set aside — as the case proceeded — due to the disruption of their educations and possible deportation.
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Hanlon replied that none of the students are in removal proceedings and the consequences to their careers “are too speculative” to justify a temporary restraining order.
The denial also says that since only one of the plaintiffs, Jelena Liu of IU Indianapolis, resides in the Southern District, the others will have to show why the court shouldn’t dismiss them from the lawsuit.
Ken Falk, legal director of the ACLU, said in a statement that his organization is “obviously disappointed in this decision.”
