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Trump admin caves to Harvard and MIT, won’t deport online-only students:
The Trump administration has rescinded a controversial policy that could have forced the deportation of foreign students who attend colleges that aren't offering in-person classes during the coronavirus pandemic.
As we reported last week, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration to block the policy issued by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Under the policy change announced July 6, foreign students with nonimmigrant (F-1 and M-1) visas would have had to leave the United States or transfer to different schools that offer in-person classes.
But US officials agreed to rescind the new policy in a settlement with Harvard and MIT, as revealed [Tuesday] at a hearing on the case at US District Court for the District of Massachusetts. "At a short hearing Tuesday afternoon, US District Judge Allison Burroughs confirmed that a settlement had been reached," The Wall Street Journal reported. "She said the government would rescind the policy, withdraw an FAQ detailing the rule and return to the status quo of guidance issued in the spring."
Under a policy issued on March 13, which is back in effect because of the settlement, ICE provided an exemption to the rule that F-1 students must attend classes in person. The Harvard/MIT lawsuit pointed out that, when ICE issued this exemption, "the government made clear that this arrangement was 'in effect for the duration of the emergency.'" But the Trump administration's July 6 order reversed that policy despite the pandemic raging on and the fact that President Trump had not rescinded his national emergency declaration.
Harvard and MIT argued in their lawsuit that the Trump administration's July 6 policy change "is arbitrary and capricious because it fails to consider important aspects of the problem before the agency... fails to offer any reasoned basis that could justify the policy." The lawsuit also argues that the change violates a requirement to provide public notice and take comments.
Previously:
(2020-07-08) New Rules: Foreign Pupils Must Leave US if Classes Go Online-Only
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @01:54PM (7 children)
Can we deport Trump instead?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @03:14PM
If you want to set that precedent be my guest. Do not cry when it, like all retarded ideas from your side, bites you in the ass in few years when all the anchor babies are deported.
(Score: 4, Funny) by c0lo on Thursday July 16 2020, @03:26PM (2 children)
Deport? Look, mate, there's no nation that will take him; he's even more American than Rupert Murdoch, you'll have to deal with the liability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @02:25PM (1 child)
Thought he'd fit right into your parliament down in ozzieland.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Friday July 17 2020, @02:49PM
Not even as a janitor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @03:43PM
What planet?
(Score: 2) by Opportunist on Thursday July 16 2020, @03:57PM (1 child)
The question would be, where to?
And before you ask, no, Europe explicitly had its colonies to get rid of the unwanted criminals. Find your own solution!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 16 2020, @08:23PM
Guantanamo?