By Devan Cole, CNN

(CNN) — A federal judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration on nationwide from terminating the legal status that allows foreign students to study at colleges and universities in the US.

The preliminary injunction issued by US District Judge Jeffrey White of the federal district court in San Francisco is the latest major blow to the efforts by the administration to target international students as it seeks to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign.

The case concerns a sweeping maneuver by the administration to tamper with student records – known as SEVIS records – of immigrants who are in the US on education visas, putting them in jeopardy of deportation.

Though the administration had backed down on that initiative last month amid num

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