Trump blocked again as court slams administration's 'game of Whack-a-Mole'

A federal judge in California blocked the Trump administration from revoking the visas of international students, NBC News reported on Thursday, and issued a broadside at administration officials.

Oakland-based U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White further prohibited the administration from making arrests or detaining international students as courts continue to litigate the challenge to revoking their visas.

Trump administration officials had argued such an injunction wasn't necessary because they had reversed the revocations in April and were already in the process of restoring the visas they terminated, while officials at Immigration and Customs Enforcement drafted new policies for termination that will satisfy the courts.

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White condemned the Trump administration for visa terminations that "wreaked havoc" on students' lives and found an injunction remains necessary.

“At each turn in this and similar litigation across the nation, Defendants have abruptly changed course to satisfy courts’ expressed concerns,” said White in his ruling. “It is unclear how this game of whack-a-mole will end unless Defendants are enjoined from skirting their own mandatory regulations.”

The visa terminations, which were issued against thousands of students in March, "appeared to take aim at those who had participated in political activism or had criminal charges against them, like DUIs," noted the report. "And in late April, DHS revealed at a court hearing that the department used 10 to 20 employees to run the names of 1.3 million foreign-born students through the National Crime Information Center, an FBI-run computerized index that includes criminal history information."

This comes as Trump is also stepping up his war on Harvard, revoking the university's ability to enroll international students and ordering any such students currently enrolled there to transfer to other schools to avoid the loss of their visas.