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..
You are crazy about COVID. So Trump says 'no foreign students'. So which is it NBC? Some foreigners with COVID are okay as long as it feeds your narrative? Or you want to protect US citizens from the virus? Which is it NBC?
Our own kids were sent home when classes went online. Many campuses couldn’t close because foreign students had no place to go. If we hit another COVID-19 wave, it’s better for them to already be home.
It is his 86th law sue against the Trump Admin. What else he has been doing?
If they’re taking classes online, they can do it from their own country. Wow, how stupid is California 😂
No reason for them to stay, BYE
I don’t get why students have to take the brunt of Trump’s disastrous existence.
once again a waste of money to protect foreigners while throwing citizens under the bus.
Allen58B Get in line....there are more than 3000.....
can WE ALL SUE HIM FOR TREASON OF THE USA PRESIDENCY? I THINK WE CAN!
Who care this state protect criminals illegals everyone but American's
Good!
NBC you have made our country go out of control. May GOD forgive us
Bull sue thw Supreme Court..Seperation of Poweres, Three Branches of Government..Congress makes the laws..Trump only enforces them.
Good Job, we don't want them hanging here in states looking for mates or working under table for less. Way to Deal. Got to Gooo
Sue sue suuuuy!
Shocker
Fake news. It’s Massachusetts and one other...cant remember right off. It was on your news broadcast earlier tonight.
I am not agreeing with this decision disgusting leftist ideology.
If they can take classes online they have no reason to be in the country.
Such a waste of tax dollars . Shouldn’t this so called state attorneys spend his time working on things that would actually help the citizens of his state ? What is really going on ? Moves like this is why I am voting red this year .
Can I apply for asylum in order to get out of california cause I need help! It's like living in a terrorist state
apachegirl29 International students can learn on-line in their own country. There is absolutely no reason they shouldn't go home..
Cc gsiskind
Interesting that California always has money for absurd trails, but never for people of California. Socialist Republic of California
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donlemon said black people were the reason for their own problems. Not systemic racism. Boycott Don Lemon and CNN GetWokeDonLemon
Sue the adminstration and their illiterate decision makers for 40 billion ..
This is wrong for students already here that have sacrificed and worked hard for the opportunity to be here and attend one of our Colleges. It hurts the school as well. Many of these young people do not have the means to fly home and back again. Many are living with families that
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He sues trump for everything.
realDonaldTrump GOP senatemajldr BestyDeVos president Trump elected to protect American people from corrupt State where they’re trying to destroy our schools,economy&jobs. President Trump is in the highest office&must stop these idiots unlawful act.
AGBecerra is one of GavinNewsom ‘s trolls. They live for lawsuits, unrest, and ways to gain money and power from the state. SpeakerPelosi trained them well.
They are foreign students here to go to school. Why should they stay if there's no school.
Another lawsuit for a publicity stunt.
ICE can choke on a fat one
He cries 'Harassment.' We cry for 135,000 dead Americans.
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