Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic. From a report: The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought…
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Foreign Students Must Leave the US If Their Universities Transition To Online-Only Learning
ugen shares a report from Reuters: Foreign students must leave the United States if their school’s classes this fall will be taught completely online or transfer to another school with in-person instruction, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency announced on Monday. It was not immediately clear how many student visa holders would be affected by the move, but foreign…
Robocalls Are Overwhelming Hospitals and Patients, Threatening a New Kind of Health Crisis
An anonymous reader shares a report: In the heart of Boston, Tufts Medical Center treats scores of health conditions, from administering measles vaccines for children to pioneering next-generation tools that can eradicate the rarest of cancers. But doctors, administrators and other hospital staff struggled to contain a much different kind of epidemic one April morning last year: a wave of thousands…
Seeking ‘Tougher’ Direction for ICE, Trump Withdraws His Nominee
The president pulled his choice to run the immigration enforcement agency just hours before he left for a California border town to address what he considers to be a crisis at the border. Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/05/us/politics/ronald-vitiello-ice.html?partner=rss&emc=rss