US judge blocks Trump’s ‘absurd’ visa caps for students, journalists
Por Khushboo Razdan — South China Morning Post – News feed
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The last-minute freeze keeps old rules in place as legal challenge by university groups and labour unions makes its way through the courts
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Khushboo Razdan Published: 5:07pm, 15 Sep 2026 Updated: 5:15pm, 15 Sep 2026 A US federal judge on Monday temporarily blocked a new visa cap for international students, visiting scholars and foreign journalists , saying the Trump administration’s national security justification “borders on the absurd”.
Judge F. Dennis Saylor in Boston said the rationale for the restriction was “exceptionally weak”, and the connection between the rule and the problems it purported to address was “exceptionally attenuated”.
He wrote that the US Department of Homeland Security had built the case “almost entirely on a small handful of anecdotes, each of which involved incidents that the new rule would do nothing to prevent or even mitigate”.
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