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Trump admin rescinding directive barring some foreign students from staying in US while taking online courses
The Trump administration has dropped a proposed policy that would have seen thousands of international students deported if their schools were offering only online courses in the fall, following a massive lawsuit.
US District Judge Allison Burroughs announced Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology had reached a settlement with the administration on Tuesday to cancel the new policy, which required non-resident international students to take at least one in-person class or face deportation.
The two Cambridge universities, bolstered by amicus briefs from hundreds of other schools and many tech companies, had sued the administration after Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which oversees student visas and exchange programs, announced the new restriction last week.
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They argued that not only would the rule harm students, it would deprive the US of the billions of dollars that international students spend every year.
Additionally, the lawsuit argued, the rules would threaten public health by potentially forcing universities to reopen before they deemed it safe to do so. Harvard has opted to conduct most of its classes online for the fall semester, while MIT is offering “hybrid” classes including online and in-person components.
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