Huge loss for Republicans. One of their signature issues for the year was punishing international students. Thoughts and prayers to them. https://t.co/yIqGyEsjsu
— AdotSad (@AdotSad) July 14, 2020
Standard demurral: Better informed front pagers (Hi, Tom!) will no doubt write about this later, but seriously, it’s good news for the students, for the American universities that serve those students, and for the very concept of FREEDOM that the opponents of these students claim to support…
BREAKING: The Trump administration has rescinded a rule that would have forced international students to leave the country if their colleges hold classes online this fall. The administration was sued over the new policy by Harvard and MIT. https://t.co/5kqSNY7r2C
— The Associated Press (@AP) July 14, 2020
BOSTON (AP) — Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the coronavirus pandemic.
The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said federal immigration authorities agreed to pull the July 6 directive and “return to the status quo.”
A lawyer representing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said only that the judge’s characterization was correct.
The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country, along with hundreds of universities that were scrambling to reassess their plans for the fall in light of the policy. With the policy rescinded, ICE will revert to a directive from March that suspended typical limits around online education for foreign students…
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Elsewhere, the same day…
"No. We are down to Kool-Aid drinkers and next of kin," said @acosta in response to question from @andersoncooper about whether there is anyone in the White House who could tell the President to not say/do what he did today. ??
— Jonathan Capehart (@CapehartJ) July 15, 2020
Media: @Acosta to @wolfblitzer: "I've never seen a president turn the #RoseGarden into a campaign rally the way @realDonaldTrump did over the last hour. This was the campaign rally he wanted to have in #NewHampshire last weekend. The myths, the lies, the stretching of the truth." pic.twitter.com/8o2vEanoz8
— Porter Anderson (@Porter_Anderson) July 14, 2020