(Rishika Iyer, Intern Journalist): On July 6th, the Trump administration announced a new rule which said that foreign students could no longer remain in the States if their courses were entirely taught online. “If they’re not going to be a student or they’re going to be 100 percent online, then they don’t have a basis to be here. They should go home, and then they can return when the school opens,” said Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II, the acting deputy secretary of the Department of Homeland Security.
This is one of the things President Trump in order to advance his agenda on immigration, using coronavirus as a reason to remove people from the country. The government also stopped processing green cards for foreigners and closed the southwest border for non-essential travel. He also barred thousands of foreigners to enter the United States on work visas.
Two days upon announcing this rule, Harvard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and attorney general of 20 states filed a legal lawsuit for stopping this. They called this policy reckless, cruel, and senseless. Many big technology companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google showed support to the lawsuit along with hundreds of universities and organizations. These organizations claimed that this policy would affect their ability to hire highly skilled workers.
International students also play a very big role in building the US economy and contribute more than $41 billion each year and support more than 4 lakh jobs. It would also result in the loss of billions of dollars that the students pay as tuition fees to the universities.
After all the backlash received, Judge Allison D Burroughs revoked this policy to allow all students to stay in the States on Tuesday.
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