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NPR News: 04-25-2025 7PM EDT

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🗓️ 25 April 2025

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NPR News: 04-25-2025 7PM EDT

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0:00.0

On the next Thulein from NPR.

0:04.0

For the presidency, I'm indebted to Almighty God.

0:07.2

I'm in charge of the country,

0:08.8

and I need to serve all the American people

0:10.9

and not just the political machine.

0:14.0

The origins of the modern civil service.

0:17.9

Listen to Thuline, wherever you get your podcasts.

0:31.9

Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Jack Spear. The Trump administration is restoring the status of hundreds, possibly thousands of international students, whose records it had

0:37.2

eliminated from a crucial government

0:38.9

database. As NPR's Adrian Fluido explains, those deleted likely would have had to leave the country

0:44.4

soon. The SEVIS database is how immigration agents track student visa holders while they're in the

0:49.5

country to ensure they're complying with requirements. If you're not in the database, it's harder to keep your legal status.

0:56.1

In recent weeks, the government deleted records for thousands of students, many of them sued,

1:00.6

saying it was over minor infractions, like arrests that resulted in no charges.

1:05.3

But now the Justice Department has announced the government will restore those students' records,

1:10.1

at least until it devises a formal

1:12.0

policy for removing them. A lawyer for one student called it a sigh of relief, though legal fights

1:17.5

to protect international students from deportation will continue. Adrian Flaido, NPR News.

1:25.2

Protests in Wisconsin today following the arrest of a Milwaukee County judge who the FBI

1:31.2

alleges helped a migrant evade arrest. The man faces battery charges is in the U.S. illegally.

1:37.6

Judge Hanna-Dugan was briefly held and appeared in court before being released.

1:41.4

Activist Simon Rosenblum Larson was among those rallying in support of Dugan.

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