Aadhithi Padmanabhan: The Fox TV Problem with Deporting International Students

Aadhithi Padmanabhan for Just Security (The Fox TV Problem with Deporting International Students) critically scrutinizes the Trump administration's recent mass revocations of the visas of international students.  She writes that "standing in the way of the government’s efforts to deport students . . . is a 2012 Supreme Court opinion that sets important constitutional limits on federal agencies’ enforcement powers. In that case, FCC v. Fox Television Stations, the Court held that a bedrock requirement of due process—fair notice—barred the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from imposing regulatory penalties where the agency had failed to clearly announce the standards that it later sought to enforce. Now, that same logic could shield students . . . from removal."

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