July Directive: Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute

july directive: U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said federal immigration authorities agreed to pull the July 6 directive and return to the status quo, according to CTV. A lawyer representing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said only that the judge's characterization was correct. The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country, along with hundreds of universities that were scrambling to reassess their plans for the fall in light of the policy. ICE did not immediately comment on the decision. With the policy rescinded, ICE will revert to a directive from March that suspended typical limits around online education for foreign students. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.