Immigration and Nationality Act

For example, "if a student fails to maintain his or her nonimmigrant status after the record is reactivated, or engages in other unlawful activity that would render him or her removable from the United States under the Immigration and Nationality Act" justice department attorney Elizabeth Kurlan told a federal court in California, NBC News reported.

They alleged that the government had violated his right to due process of law and provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Administrative Procedure Act, and federal habeas corpus law.

In Khalil’s case, Secretary of State Marco Rubio is invoking a provision within the Immigration and Nationality Act to deport individuals he has “reasonable grounds” to believe would negatively impact U.S. foreign policy.

The secretary can make this claim under a rarely used provision within the Immigration and Nationality Act where he can “personally determine” whether a person should remain in the country.

It provides one of the most sweeping grants of discretionary executive power in the Immigration and Nationality Act.