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ICE’s International Student Ban Met with Multiple Lawsuits

ICE's ban on international student visas is seen as a blatant attempt to get schools to reopen in the fall

Mazin Sidahmed

Jul 10, 2020

Students at Columbia University, which had over 8,000 students from China in 2019.

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A new ICE directive that would strip foreign students of their visas if their university switched to online courses in the fall was met with multiple lawsuits this week. Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology sued the Trump administration on Wednesday to block the directive, arguing it violated the Administrative Procedure Act. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced a similar lawsuit on behalf of the California State University system on Thursday. The directive was widely seen as an attempt to push universities to reopen. Hundreds of thousands of international students across the U.S. would be affected, and are also a major source of revenue for American universities. The New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters

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Mazin Sidahmed

Mazin Sidahmed is the co-executive director of Documented. He previously worked for the Guardian US in New York. He started his career writing for The Daily Star in Beirut and he also contributed to Politico New York.

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