A federal judge halted new Trump administration restrictions on international students’ admission to the US.
The Department of Homeland Security failed to meaningfully consider alternatives to the policy or show a rational connection between the rule and its purported objectives, US District Court for the District of Massachusetts Judge F. Dennis Saylor found in an order Monday.
“The government’s contention that the rule is necessary to safeguard national security borders on the absurd,” Saylor wrote in the order. “It is based almost entirely on a small handful of anecdotes, each of which involved incidents that the new rule would do …