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IOWA CITY — Eight months after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement abruptly terminated the status of four University of Iowa international students — and revoked visas for three of them without explanation — those students have settled the lawsuit they filed against the Department of Homeland Security.

The settlement — officially terminating the case Monday — followed months of argument and appeal from DHS and ICE attorneys, facing lawsuits from many of the 6,000-plus students cost-to-coast swept up in the “student criminal alien initiative.”

Despite appeals from the government, a judge hearing argument from the four UI students — including two Chinese-national undergraduates, a fourth-y

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