California Sues Trump Administration Over New Policy Restricting International Student Visas

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🗓️ 13 July 2020

⏱️ 54 minutes

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California Attorney General Xavier Becerra and state public education leaders announced on Thursday that they’re suing the Trump administration over a new rule requiring foreign college students to leave the U.S. if their classes are online-only when they resume in the fall. California, which is home to the largest population of international students in the country, follows Harvard and M.I.T., who filed a joint suit and asked for an emergency order to stop the new policy. California’s public college systems are now reviewing their ability to offer some in-person classes to protect international students who could be deported or barred from re-entering the country under the new rule, which is raising health and safety concerns. We’ll hear from Attorney General Becerra, as well as from students who could be affected, and discuss the implications of the policy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:24.6	Coming up on forum, 17 states and the District of Columbia today sued to block the Trump
1:30.7	administration from requiring foreign students to take in-person classes or risk deportation.
1:37.3	California colleges are scrambling to deal with the new federal guidance.
1:40.6	The state draws more international students than any other and already sued the Trump administration over the requirement last Thursday.
1:48.0	California says the policy during a pandemic is, quote, dangerous and morally reprehensible.
1:53.8	We'll talk with international students, university officials, and the state attorney General after this news.
2:19.0	Welcome to Forum from KQED. I'm Mina Kim. International college students say their lives have been upended by federal guidance announced last week that would revoke their legal status if they take all of their classes online.
2:24.8	Students currently in their home countries would also be barred from re-entering the U.S.
2:29.1	unless their colleges certify that some classes will be offered in person.
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