From the Boston Globe:
The
leaders of Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology are now asking the federal courts to block the Trump
administration’s ban on international students from being in the United
States to attend the Cambridge institutions because most classes will be
held online this fall.
In
a lawsuit filed Wednesday in US District Court in Boston, the
universities are seeking a temporary restraining order that would put
the Immigration and Customs Enforcement policy on hold for 14 days. In
court papers, the universities said they relied on the DHS policy from
March that allowed foreign students in the US to remain and to allow new
students to arrive this fall. But the Trump administration issued new rules Monday banning foreign students if classes are being held mostly online.
“If
allowed to stand, ICE’s policy would bar hundreds of thousands of
international students at American universities from the United States
in the midst of their undergraduate or graduate studies,‘' the schools
wrote in the court papers. “ICE’s decision reflects a naked effort by
the federal government to force universities to reopen all in-person
classes notwithstanding their informed judgment that it is neither safe
nor advisable to do so. The effect — perhaps even the goal — is to
create chaos for schools and international students alike."
The
universities have asked the federal court to schedule a hearing on
their request Wednesday while they push for the courts to permanently
block the order from taking effect...
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