Foreign students fear deportation over Trump visa threat

HARVARD. Pedestrians walk past a Harvard University building on August 30, 2018 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Photo by Scott Eisen/Getty Images/AFP

"I might be affected if they don't offer any sort of in-person class," said Taimoor Ahmed, an information technology student at Cal State University in Los Angeles.Harvard and MITWednesday, July 8, asking the court to revoke the order that Harvard President Lawrence Bacow said had thrown higher education in the US"into chaos."

He planned to continue with online classes in the fall but is now obliged to return to the campus – in a state where COVID-19 cases are soaring – or face deportation."I don't have anyone to take care of me if I get ill. The cost of the medical treatment in the US is far, far more than the country which I come from," the 25-year-old added.

Some 84% of universities are planning to offer a hybrid system of in-person and online classes, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education website, which would save students from deportation.Many students fear a resurgence of the pandemic later this year, though, which could see all classes moved online, forcing them to leave the country.

She says she will live in a"permanent state of anxiety" until her work and thesis defense ends in November.

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