China News Service, July 12 (Xinhua) According to US media reports, following many universities such as Harvard University and MIT, Johns Hopkins University also recently filed a lawsuit against the US government to try to prevent its The decision of international students to accept online courses to leave the United States.
The report said that Johns Hopkins University filed a lawsuit against the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) in the Federal Court of the District of Columbia on the 10th. The university said the institution's decision "completely subverted" the university's fall semester opening plan.
According to reports, Johns Hopkins University has enrolled about 5,000 international students. The school plans to offer mixed courses including face-to-face and online courses, and plans to change to a fully online course after the Thanksgiving holiday.
Allegedly, in a lawsuit, Johns Hopkins University described the Trump administration’s decision as “arbitrary and capricious,” and said the decision put the university in an “unsolvable dilemma”.
The university said, "The adverse consequences of this sudden displacement have caused damage to both the economy and the individual."
On the 6th local time, the US Bureau of Immigration and Customs Enforcement notified universities that if the school was fully online in the fall semester, international students would be forced to leave the United States or transfer to another university. International students in these schools will not be issued new visas, and international students in universities that adopt a mixed teaching model will be prohibited from accepting all online courses.
Harvard University and MIT first filed a lawsuit to prevent the rule. Neither college has plans to open face-to-face courses in the fall semester.