Harvard & MIT Sue Trump Administration Over ICE Rule Stripping Visas From International Students
Harvard and MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) are suing the Trump administration over the recent ICE rule stripping visas from international students — a move they implemented to pressure college and universities to reopen their campuses with in-person classes amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Additionally, on July 6, we reported that ICE was forcing foreign students to either transfer or leave the US entirely if colleges transition to online-only instruction for the upcoming academic year.
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As of today (July 8), a lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Boston against the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, in which they seek a temporary restraining order against the policy and seek an order vacating the policy and declaring it unlawful.
The lawsuit addresses ICE’s actions on Monday, claiming it was “rescinding its COVID-19 exemption for international students, requiring all students on F-1 visas whose university curricula are entirely online to depart the country, and barring any such students currently outside the United States from entering or re-entering the United States. ICE’s action leaves hundreds of thousands of international students with no educational options within the United States.”
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Furthermore, as of Monday, ahead of the fall semester, Harvard’s Faculty of Arts & Sciences stated they’d invite up to 40 percent of its undergraduates back to campus, including first-year students; while MIT reported only seniors would be allowed back to campus for the fall semester.