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ICE has announced that full-time international students at US colleges and universities who are taking more than one course or three credits online must transfer institutions (generally impossible in a short time frame) or return to their home countries (which may have their borders closed to travelers from the U.S.). This applies even if a school starts in-person and then switches to online courses because in-person instruction becomes unsafe. This puts international students in the bind of having to risk their own and others’ health in order to comply, if they even can, or losing access to their education.