On July 13, local time, 17 US states and the District of Columbia (Capital Washington) sued the Trump administration against the new regulations for international student visas. The new regulations prohibit international students from living in the United States during online classes and require international students to accept face-to-face courses, otherwise they will face "including but not limited to the consequences of expulsion."
Earlier, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced last week that international students whose courses are all online will be required to leave the United States, canceling the previous plan to grant student visa holders an exemption.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey said: "The Trump administration has not even tried to explain the basis of this meaningless regulation, which has forced schools to continue to recruit international students and protect campus health and safety. Choose between."
The lawsuit held that the way the government promulgated the new regulations violated the Administrative Procedure Law. The lawsuit pointed out that there were 1,124 universities and colleges in the area involved in the prosecution, and a total of 373,000 international students were enrolled in 2019, contributing more than $14 billion to the economy that year.
Prior to this, Harvard University and MIT filed a similar lawsuit last week, as did other higher education institutions. (CCTV reporter Xu Dezhi)