MISSOULA — The U.S. government already fixed the problem over which a couple of Montana State University international students sued, so a federal judge should toss the lawsuit the students filed against it in fear of deportation, argued the U.S. Attorney’s Office in federal court Tuesday.

But a lawyer for the American Civil Liberties Union of Montana said without a court order, the students remain in a precarious position, worried about future deportation and subject to yet another policy change that harms them in the future.

The lawyers made their arguments in U.S. District Court of Montana in Missoula on the government’s motion to dismiss the case, one similar to numerous lawsuits across the country in response to a Trump administration policy that resulted in stripped visa statuses f

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