Harvard and MIT filed suit against the Trump administration Wednesday over a policy shift that forbids international students from studying at colleges and universities that shift to remote learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Harvard and MIT filed suit against the Trump administration Wednesday over a policy shift that forbids international students from studying at colleges and universities that shift to remote learning amid the coronavirus pandemic.
“We will pursue this case vigorously so that our international students — and international students at institutions across the country — can continue their studies without the threat of deportation,” Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said in a message to the university community on Wednesday.
“We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal,” Bacow wrote.
The suit comes two days after U. S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement sent the higher education community into upheaval when it rescinded pandemic-era exceptions imposed in March that allowed foreign students to take classes online as campuses across the country shuttered in an effort to slow the spread of the coronavirus.
