On July 6th, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that international students would have to leave the country if their universities switched to on-line courses. This morning they backed off.
On July 6th, U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that international students would have to leave the country if their universities switched to online-only courses. The move seemingly came out of nowhere. Harvard University and MIT quickly filed a federal lawsuit claiming that ICE violated the Administrative Procedure Act by acting in an “arbitrary and capricious” manner in imposing the new rules.
ICE pushed back, filing a brief with the court arguing that Harvard and MIT’s “request [for an injunction] subverts the deference afforded administrative agencies in complex and interrelated fields like immigration enforcement, which requires coordination between multiple federal agencies including the U.
