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posted by martyb on Thursday July 16 2020, @11:28AM   Printer-friendly
from the sudden-outbreak-of-common-sense? dept.

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The Trump administration has rescinded a controversial policy that could have forced the deportation of foreign students who attend colleges that aren't offering in-person classes during the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July 6 order reversed that policy despite the pandemic raging on and the fact that President Trump had not rescinded his national emergency declaration.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


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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 16 2020, @10:04PM (3 children)

    by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Thursday July 16 2020, @10:04PM (#1022596)

    built on mass immigration

    Doesn't mean we don't reserve the right to determine who may come in.

    Fair enough.

    racist

    How?

    You haven't been paying attention, have you?

    inward looking

    This is our country. We care more about it than far off places.

    Unless those far-off places elect someone you don't like of course.

    socially divided

    Where do you not have social divisions?

    My country does not have anything like the divisions you have.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @03:24AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @03:24AM (#1022730)

    My country does not have anything like the divisions you have.

    Yes it does. You have nothing to be proud of in terms of social divisions and racism. According to Wikipedia Crime in New Zealand: "New Zealand's crime statistics are compounded by the over-representation of Māori. Despite Māori making up only 12.5% of the general population aged 15 and over,[31] 2007 figures show 42% of all criminal apprehensions involve a person identifying as Māori, as do 50% of those in prison. In November 2019 the police launched a campaign to reduce Māori re-offending, as 51% of those in prison were Māori.[32] For Maori women, the picture is even more acute: they comprise around 60% of the female prison population.[33]"

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @03:51AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @03:51AM (#1022738)

      The article continues: A forum held at Parliament in 2009 on the Drivers of Crime in New Zealand identified mainly socio-economic factors contributing to crime such as: "Family dysfunction; child maltreatment; poor educational achievement; harmful drinking and drug use; poor mental health; severe behavioural problems among children and young people; and the intergenerational transmission of criminal behaviour."[35] The forum noted that "Many of these issues are concentrated within socially and economically disadvantaged families and communities." In New Zealand, it seems these life circumstances are more likely to affect Maori families than non-Maori – which contributes to the comparatively high rates of offending by Maori.[33] In 2010 the Law Commission released a report on the social destruction caused by alcohol in New Zealand and quoted district court judges who said that 80% of all offending in New Zealand occurred under the influence of alcohol and drugs.[36]

      "Socially and economically disadvantaged families and communities" - But you said your country didn't have any of those divisions. Perhaps you should check your white privilege.

      #MaoriLivesMatter

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @06:45PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 17 2020, @06:45PM (#1023014)

        Huh, sounds just like the old USA.