Thousands of international students in the US abruptly lost their legal status after DHS and ICE relied on a spreadsheet—sourced from an FBI database—to trigger mass terminations in SEVIS. Without charges or due process, students faced academic exile, fear, and deportation threats, exposing a chilling shift from legal fairness to administrative overreach.US paperless justice: How a spreadsheet became judge, jury, and executioner
Thousands of international students in the US abruptly lost their legal status after DHS and ICE relied on a spreadsheet—sourced from an FBI database—to trigger mass terminations in SEVIS. Without charges or due process, students faced academic exile, fear, and deportation threats, exposing a chilling shift from legal fairness to administrative overreach.