International students have already been denied entry to the
United States under new
Trump Administration rules that bar them from the country if their schools hold all classes online amid the
Coronavirus pandemic, according to a court document filed on Sunday.
The "friend of the court" brief, written by dozens of universities and colleges, was filed in support of a lawsuit brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) seeking to block
immigration rules issued on July 6 that blindsided academic institutions across the country.
The brief said U.S. immigration authorities were "already preventing returning students from re-entering the country" and cited the case of a DePaul University student returning from
South Korea who was denied at San Francisco International Airport.