China News Service, July 8th, according to the US "World Daily" report, on the 8th local time, Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology announced in the Boston Federal Court to the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Bureau (ICE ) Filed a lawsuit seeking a temporary restraining order to prevent it from enforcing the federal government's regulations prohibiting international students from taking online courses from staying in the United States.
On the 6th local time, the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued the latest regulations. If the university’s fall semester adopts comprehensive online courses in the fall of 2020, international students at these schools will not receive visas to the United States. Those who are already in the United States need to leave territory.
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey announced on the 7th that it would prosecute the provision, calling it "cruel" and "illegal."
Data map: Harvard University campus.
However, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology chose not to wait for Hilly’s lawsuit, but to sue on their own, saying that the provision violated the Administrative Procedure Law and did not consider “important aspects of the issue” before it was issued, and did not provide reasonableness for this policy. Basis, and not fully inform the public.
President Barco of Harvard University wrote in an email to teachers and students, "This rule was issued without notice, and its brutality is not just sloppy. We believe that the ICE rule is a bad public policy. This is Unlawful."
Barco said the school will actively deal with the case so that international students at the school and the country can continue to study without being threatened by deportation.
In his letter to teachers and students, Reif, the president of MIT, emphasized that the school absolutely welcomes international students. He said, "The advantage of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is people-no matter where they come from." Reeve also told international students that the school will not only take legal measures, but also maintain close contact with them.