US now says no new foreign students for all-online classes
AMERICA announced Friday you won't take in any new foreign students seeking online-only study, after rescinding a hotly contested order to expel those already here and finding your way through that because of the pandemic.
The policy change was announced in a statement by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
President Donald Trump features made a hardcore line on immigration a good cornerstone of his message and features suspended several varieties of visas for foreigners during the coronavirus crisis.
The initial policy change of revoking the visas of foreign students whose classes will move online in the autumn was taken to court by top universities including Harvard and MIT, teachers unions and at least 18 states.
And on July 14 the administration reversed course and rescinded the decision.
That measure have been regarded as a move by Trump to put pressure on educational institutions that are adopting a cautious approach to reopening amid the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Trump is looking forward to schools in all levels to reopen with in-person classes due to an indicator of a go back to normality seeing that he fights an uphill battle for re-election in November.
He is pushing because of this even though the virus has gone out of control in a few states, with the united states death toll a world-high greater than 144,000.
His administration is leaving it largely up to claims themselves to figure out how to open schools safely.
There were multiple million international students in america for the 2018-19 academic year, in line with the Institute of International Education.
Many schools depend heavily about the tuition paid by those students.
Most US universites and colleges have not but announced their plans for the fall semester but Harvard has said all its classes for the 2020-21 academic year will end up being conducted online, "with rare exceptions." -- AFP
