A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to temporarily restore the student visas of five Concordia University graduate students. The five plaintiffs are citizens of India and earned master’s degrees in information technology and management from the St. Paul university

Salma Rameez Shaik, Akhil Pothuraju, Nithish Babu Challa, Shyam Vardhan Reddy Yarkareddy and Almas Abdul filed their joint lawsuit Monday and requested temporary restraining orders that would restore their status out of concern that — among other things — they could be arrested and detained by federal authorities.

In his order, U.S. District Judge John Tunheim of Minneapolis said the plaintiffs “clearly face irreparable harm” after having their student status abruptly terminated. His decision comes after two other judges granted similar restraining orders last week to other Minnesota students targeted by the DHS.

“Therefore, the Court will join in a growing consensus in this District that such sudden terminations of student status by this Administration, seemingly without notice or cause, demand a TRO,” wrote Tunheim.

The court will hold a preliminary hearing at a later date.

The lawsuit said that “plaintiffs were provided no notice, much less an opportunity to object, to the termination of their status — the foundations of the procedural due process that all persons in the United States (including noncitizens) are entitled under the Fifth Amendment.”

The suit also says each of the graduates was working for tech companies as part of authorized post-graduate training and that each of them had to quit their jobs because they couldn’t hold the positions without student visas.

In declarations filed in court, the five say they were in compliance with all the rules and regulations required to maintain their visas.

Four of the five say they had been cited for traffic violations — one of whom said they pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor drunken driving offense.

However, the suit said these offenses are not sufficient to warrant termination of their student visas. The plaintiffs also said they had not engaged in any on-campus political protests or demonstrations.

“Two judges in this District already issued temporary restraining orders similar to the one sought here on nearly identical facts,” the lawsuit reads, referring to the cases of Rattanand Ratsantiboon (Metropolitan State University in St. Paul) and Ziliang Jin (University of Minnesota). Both men, who also had their student status suddenly terminated by DHS, were granted temporary restraining orders by federal judges last week.

Ratsantiboon and Jin are among at least two dozen international students in Minnesota who have been stripped of their status by the department as part of the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigration, both illegal and legal.