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Harvard, MIT sue US admin over new rule for foreign students: Report

The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to bar the govt from enforcing federal guidelines that will force international students to leave the US

Students at Columbia University in New York
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Students at Columbia University in New York City, where classes have been suspended. Photo: Reuters

Press Trust of India New York

Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have sued the Department of Homeland Security and the federal immigration agency over new guidelines barring foreign students from remaining in America if their universities switched to online-only classes in the Fall.

A report in The Harvard Crimson said the two preeminent educational institutions filed a lawsuit in District Court in Boston Wednesday morning against the two federal agencies.

The lawsuit seeks a temporary restraining order and preliminary and permanent injunctive relief to bar the US Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement from the enforcing federal guidelines that will force international