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If your education has been derailed by the protest chaos on US campuses, you could get your money back.
Under federal repayment rules, those who were defrauded or misled by a college can file a claim seeking relief.
Under these rules, known as 'borrower defense,' some people even get loans wiped clean.
The process was traditionally used by students who were ripped off by for-profit colleges, which shuttered at short-notice or misrepresented courses and graduate job opportunities.
Now, a conservative legal group says the same rules apply to colleges that fail to keep order on campus.
Students line up to show identification as they enter the Columbia University campus in New York City, where campus life has been roiled by protests
Pro-Palestinian supporters from Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology rally at MIT at an encampment for Palestine at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts
America First Legal (AFL), a group founded by former Trump administration officials, says too many schools are failing to enforce their codes of conduct amid the wave of protests.
AFL lawyer Reed Rubinstein says students can get their money back
Students face no repercussions for blatant harassment on campus, says the group.
Students who assault or intimidate Jewish or Christian classmates too often get away with it, says AFL.
So do those who tear down posters of Hamas hostages, or who disrupt classes or speeches by prominent conservatives.
This, they say, could amount to a 'misrepresentation' by colleges, which present their campuses as orderly and safe in prospectuses.
Reed Rubinstein, AFL lawyer who served in the Trump administration education department, says this can be the basis for a claim under borrower defense.
'We're seeing Colombia and MIT throw away long-standing codes of conduct to protect people who are engaged in the most raw kind of anti-Semitism we've seen the US since the 1930s,' Rubinstein told DailyMail.com.
'The idea that the university administrators would just cut and run on that is not something people contemplate.'
This makes a 'case for fraud,' he added.
