{"id":26860,"date":"2020-07-13T15:36:33","date_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26860"},"modified":"2020-07-13T15:36:33","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T22:36:33","slug":"google-facebook-join-legal-challenge-to-ice-foreign-students-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/?p=26860","title":{"rendered":"Google, Facebook join legal challenge to ICE foreign students rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over a dozen tech companies filed a brief Monday backing a lawsuit to block the Trump administration from stripping foreign students of their visas if the schools they attend go exclusively online this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard and MIT\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tljjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrphbbwl_nyqqddfyfnqdktprjjrw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/tljjsdwfpllktdtlkbvppkjjpwkrlwlggcpfdmrphbbwl_nyqqddfyfnqdktprjjrw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594765699380000&amp;usg=AFQjCNHqQ1jBkThnI4ku2nolFaiSfxF6nQ\">filed the lawsuit last week<\/a>\u00a0after U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced international students whose courses move entirely online would be required to leave the country, rescinding a previous plan to grant exemptions to student visa holders.<\/p>\n<p>Over 60 universities filed a brief backing that case earlier Monday, while 17 states and the District of Columbia\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwchgddzk_nyqqddfyfnqdktprjjrw.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=http:\/\/click1.email.thehill.com\/lmhqsfzphmmrlflmrdjhhrqqhzrcmzmyynhpfwchgddzk_nyqqddfyfnqdktprjjrw.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1594765699380000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFisR40DFQ1j_--IaU7F-BpCjzJmg\">sued separately to block the rule<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The tech companies including Facebook, Google, Microsoft and Paypal are arguing the ban will &#8220;inflict significant harm&#8221; on their businesses.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;America&#8217;s future competitiveness depends on attracting and retaining talented international students,&#8221; the companies said in the brief.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over a dozen tech companies filed&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26860","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-science-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26860"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26861,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26860\/revisions\/26861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lapost.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}