- In a Tuesday hearing for a $4, the Trump administration rescinded last week's directive that would have revoked the visas of
international students studying at colleges that plan to remain entirely online this fall. - $4 was met with swift backlash, with $4 and Washington, DC, filing a lawsuit to block the policy.
- $4's lawsuit received the support of $4 universities.
- Despite the policy's cancellation, it has already affected American schools — with many foreign students saying they $4 and a study predicting international enrollment could decline to $4.
The Trump administration issued a directive on July 6 saying that international students attending schools operating entirely online $4. Schools, according to the policy, were supposed to report their reopening plans by Wednesday.
But on Tuesday, the White House rescinded the directive in a hearing for a lawsuit that $4 brought against Immigration and Customs Enforcement on July 8.
The cancellation of the policy came after a week of nonstop backlash.
The $4 represented over 370,000 international students at over 1,100 colleges, according to the filing. Those same students contributed about $14.5 billion to the economy in 2019, according to the states and Washington.
The directive came as many campuses were announcing their virtual reopening plans.
On July 7, Trump $4 to bring back $4 but continue remote learning.
"I think it's ridiculous. I think it's an easy way out, and I think they ought to be ashamed of themselves, if you want to know the truth," Trump said.
In a
Students said the Trump administration's anti-immigration stance $4, with one telling Insider's Inyoung Choi she was considering transferring to another country. A new study by the $4 showed enrollment of new international students at US universities was projected to decline this year by 63 to 98% — the lowest level since World War II.
The