U.S. President Donald Trump speaks after attending a closed Senate Republican policy lunch meeting on the response to the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 19, 2020. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas
The Department of Homeland Security backed down in the face of nine lawsuits and announced that they wouldn’t deport foreign college students due to the pandemic.
The government-backed down and rescinded the ICE guidance:
The Trump administration was trying to use the pandemic to both deport international college students
and threaten universities and colleges into fully reopening or see some of their students deported.The policy guidance was racist and stupid. At a time when America needs to be keeping the best and brightest immigrants in the country, Donald Trump was ready to throw them out because he thought that doing so would help his reelection campaign.
Just like all of his other racist campaign gambits, the plan to deport international students didn’t hold up and resulted in another defeat for Trump.
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