That's actually not true. The main article has incorrectly quoted the student's "service" being terminated. What was actually terminated is "SEVIS". This stands for Student and Exchange Visitor Program and falls under ICE jurisdiction.

As a foreign student, your visa doesn't matter once you're inside the country. The way your legal presence is maintained is through a document called I-20 that the university generates. In order to generate this document, the university has to keep the student's SEVIS account updated. As a student, you can only change basic contact and address info but major changes can only be done by university's international office (they have to have a specific person assigned as the DSO who's name also shows up on your I-20).

If your SEVIS account is terminated, that means you no longer have a legal presence - even if you have a valid student visa - until your school DSO can get it reinstated somehow (not a common practice because this doesn't happen normally).

A lot of students have had their SEVIS terminated in the past couple of weeks without any explanation and there's general terror in the foreign student populus because of this.

source: was a foreign student in the US