Consider a single entry from the Department of Homeland Security’s own files. A foreign national arrives on a student visa, enrolls, and over the years that follow is granted not one extension, not two, but 14 separate program extensions by school officials. He remains a student from 2009 to 2020 and holds F-1 status reaching back to 2005. Now consider a second case from the same files, a person enrolled as an F-1 student for nearly three decades who, having exhausted that span, transfers into an English language program in late 2022 and is still studying English, still in active student status, as of the spring of 2025. These are not the inventions of a restrictionist think tank. They are descriptions that the government wrote about its own program, in the preamble to a federal rule, and they should make any reasonable person ask a simple question. At what point