Seventeen states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration over a new policy that forces international students to leave the United States if they do not have in-person classes in the fall.

The 18 attorneys general introduced the suit against the Department of Homeland Security in a Boston federal court Monday. The suit states that the federal government took “cruel, abrupt and unlawful action to expel international students amidst the pandemic that has wrought death and disruption across the United States.”

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