From the LA Times: A lawsuit filed to help 16 international athletes from UCLA and Loyola Marymount get into the United States was dismissed by the U.S. District Court on Friday, exhausting a third, and likely final, chance that the courts could unite the athletes with their teams this school year amid coronavirus travel restrictions. Under current guidance from the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, first-year international students can’t enter the country without taking at least one in-person class. That made participating in sports impossible for freshman international athletes at UCLA and LMU because their schools were offering only remote learning during the pandemic. The athletes — 15 from UCLA and one from LMU — banded together to sue DHS and ICE in October...
Full story at https://www.latimes.com/sports/story/2021-03-01/court-dismisses-lawsuit-international-athletes-us-teams
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