JUST IN: California will become the first state to sue the Trump admin. over guidelines issued this week that bar international students from remaining in the U.S. if they can take classes online, state Attorney General Xavier Becerra says.
Becerra, who was joined in a virtual news conference by California Community Colleges Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley and California State University Chancellor Timothy White, issued a blistering rebuke of the new directive, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”
"Shame on the Trump administration for risking not only the education opportunities for students who earned the chance to go to college but now their health and well-being as well,” Becerra said. Becerra said the directive “could put everybody at risk of getting the coronavirus or being subject to deportation” if students don’t comply with this latest policy.This lawsuit will mark the 86th legal action California has taken against the White House, according to the California attorney general’s office. “We’ll keep going,” Becerra said.to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security calling the proposed policy “irrational and xenophobic.
“This new policy would effectively punish international students at colleges, universities, and other institutions that have decided to move their courses online in order to protect their communities from COVID-19,”Earlier in the week, University of California officials announced plans to sue the federal government over its new student visa policy. The lawsuit will be filed separately from the state. A spokesperson said the University of California will work closely with Becerra’s office.
“At a time when college students across America are struggling to deal with the challenges and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic while focusing on their studies, this capricious and illegal order from the federal government plunges them into deeper anxiety and uncertainty,” UC President Janet Napolitano said. “It is illegal, unnecessary and callous.”Private institutions, including Stanford and the University of Southern California, also took legal action this week..
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