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Harvard, MIT Sue ICE Over Rules Barring International Students
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Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston Wednesday (July 8) against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to bar the DHS and ICE from enforcing federal guidelines barring international students attending colleges and universities offering only online courses from staying in the United States.
"The order came down without notice — its cruelty surpassed only by its recklessness," Harvard President Lawrence S. Bacow wrote in an email to affiliates. "We believe that the ICE order is bad public policy, and we believe that it is illegal."
Harvard will resume full in-person instruction "as soon as it is safe and responsible to do so," Bacow wrote. "But, until that time comes, we will not stand by to see our international students' dreams extinguished by a deeply misguided order."
From The Harvard Crimson
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