Harvard University (Shown), The Massachusetts Institute of Technology () and universities across the United States seek a court order to protect foreign students from the Trump administration’s new visa requirements for international university students.

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Due to the Coronavirus / COVID-19 pandemic Harvard University had planned for all of the fall 2020 classes to be taught online. planned for mostly online courses, with only a small number of in-person classes. On July 6 2020, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that foreign students who are taking their courses entirely online will lose their student visas. This new visa requirement could affect up to 9,000 international students at the two schools in Cambridge, Massachusetts and it is estimated that one million international student study in the United States each year. Harvard president, Lawrence S. Bacow, made a statement calling the new visa requirement “reckless” and a growing number of American university leaders have spoken out against the administration’s visa requirement. Photo shows a summer afternoon in the Harvard Yard with the steps of the Widener Library in the background, 07/09/2020.

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Location: Harvard University, Harvard University,Harvard Yard, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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