The Trump administration had terminated legal status for more than a thousand international students in the U.S., mostly for minor violations, and then reversed course. Some students left before

The federal government is expanding the reasons international students can be stripped of their legal status in the U.S., where thousands have come under scrutiny in a Trump administration

Officials said Homeland Security used up to 20 employees to run the names of 1.3 million foreign-born students through a computerized index that includes criminal history information.