U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a new set of rules for foreign students in light of the coronavirus pandemic. International students cannot enter or stay in the U.S. if their college offers courses only online in the fall semester.U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced a new set of rules for foreign students in light of the coronavirus pandemic. International students cannot enter or stay in the U.S. if their college offers courses only online in the fall semester.
"Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status," read a release from ICE's Student and Exchange Visitor Program."If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.
More than 1 million of the country's higher education students come from overseas, according to the nonprofitTypically, foreign students are limited in how many online courses they can take and are required to do the majority of their learning in the classroom, according to immigration lawyer Fiona McEntee. Once the pandemic struck, students were given flexibility to take more online classes — but only for the spring and summer semesters.
McEntee added that losing foreign students is a huge blow to university budgets, something that will impact domestic students as well. Similarly, the decision to attend classes in person impacts all students present.
Wow! This is crazy! I came to the United States as an international student. This will cause so much financial hardship. Not to mention the fact that international students pay WAY more in tuition!
The visa's are for them to be at school, if they aren't going to be present then they don't need to be in the country, also harvard is still going to charge 50k for tuition even when its all going to be online.
These knuckleheaded decision are hurting our economy. MANY OF THESE STUDENTS ARE FULL TUITION, no discount. Let’s “defund the universities or colleges” in the middle of this?! Really? Let’s break lease contracts and not pay for dorms to landlords? REALLY? kick them out?!? WTH?!?
How can they leave? So many countries are barring travel from the US, and I would suspect that would carry into their own countrymen here. The virus is running rampant in the US (thanks guys!), whereas most other nations have beat it and don't want it coming back.
these students are going to turn into visa overstays you know, the kind of people who can't effectively unionize and/or demand more of the product of their (lucrative white-collar) labor richgetricher
Forget being inhuman, its stupid. Its a sheer loss of money, talent and exposes US’ lack of vision and economic understanding. StudentBan
Like my school, DominguezHills , where hundred of international students are expected to take 96% of classes online this fall.
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I verily think Federal Authority might not have realized that back in their countries, and in deed, their remote villages, many of these students have no access to electricity not to mention internet access readily available in developed nations..inequality
Good
Another reason. This new regulation ignores the very valid reasons we have visas for foreign students. It’s ultimately to America’s benefit.
The EU has banned US travel. Trump made his “helpful” China ban... so, who’s ICE gonna send back and how? StudentBan
so put on the big boy pants
love it
I don't think any of them wants to stay in US. realDonaldTrump has fucked up so bad that everyone will soon be flocking to Canadian border pretending to be international student.
NPR want you talking about the embassies being close. American workers have to work over hereBUT THEY ARE CLOSED and that stops all the other visas and does not allowed to be process because of the embassy closures
This is sick!
Just stupid
You know the true character of a given society based on how they treat the most vulnerable. StudentBan
CSULB there hasn’t been an announcement regarding this. what will happen?
Ban them all other than European students
While on the surface this doesn't appear to be a big issue, we need to remember that most of the foreign students studying in the US are doing so as part of an exchange program. This isn't JUST about learning, but cultural exchange as well. That is why this policy is a bad one.
With so many countries barring travel from the US, this will effectively make a million students 'illegal immigrants' in this country, a group this administration has repeatedly tried to round up and imprison en masse. This is how the first Jewish concentration camps started.
Foreign students are illegal? Their visas are no good? So much for open borders. Kick everyone out, huh?
I have a job waiting overseas. I'm leaving the US. But Covid is keeping me here. Now I'm worried there's going to be retaliations for stuff like this from other countries blocking Visa's from the US. What the hell is going on?
please also make a note that realDonaldTrump and USCIS didnot exempt H1B doctors to see their patients via video chat.... they are so awful they dont care about anerican or any lives.
😡you can’t make schools open in a pandemic you won’t fix! How many people are you going to kill? TrumpIsANationalDisgrace
so realDonaldTrump directly responsible for 15000 USCIS job losses and with this decree there will be over 100k job loses in universities, real estate slump in universities and university areas. US students would pay more for their education also reaserch will be halted.
Fortunately we have plans in place to safely resume in-person classes this Fall. Accepting transfers near NYC and Washington DC:
Damn.
WT!!
If the only reason they are here is to attend classes physically...if you remove that then...
It makes sense. Online learning possible from native country . So again npr against Trump administration, right?
How does this make ANY sense at all
So I’ve spending Thousands of dollar for the past 3+ years and now I’m not welcome here !! Great :) it seems fair.
Abolish ICE
So unjust !
Wtf
StudentBan StudentsLivesMatter NoStudyInUS MoneyOnlyUS As a previous international student, I strongly suggest all the international students who are not in US now stop coming to US! No compromise for being used as a tool! Cut the cash inflow for the money only government!
This is the Trump Admin, & its complicit GOP, holding our public school system hostage. Fascists.
This is sooo fucked.
Wtf
Makes sense, if online college is the “new normal” they can do it from their home country.
They know that a lot of foreign students go on to find jobs here, start businesses, are very successful and a boon to our economy and culture, many of them eventually becoming citizens. This is Stephen Miller and his white nationalist agenda, without a doubt.
This forces schools reopen with huge risks what a disgusting government
That’ll be a bit hard since everyone has shut down their border to us.
How is GradSchoolPSU planning to support our international graduate students in light of this?
This will affect the US's standing as the world's top educational source. Soon Canada will be the top producer of Nobel prize winners.
This is the government using ICE to try to force schools to go back to in person instruction. I would hope institutions of higher learning can outplay ICE and Trump.
Many can’t leave. Nation borders are locking down due to exponential new spikes of COVID - especially among young people. Newly reopened US college campuses already reporting spikes in an age population formerly considered non-affected by Trump officials.
All of you still vote for corrupt politicians, you all probably enjoy watching minorities suffer🤷♂️
Idiocracy is full swing
This is fascism. American fascism. We’ve let this go on far too long. realDonaldTrump , SenateGOP HouseGOP senatemajldr —all of them, have to be removed. Sooner rather than later.
JenniferJJacobs DONATE TO SAVE A GIRL'S CLITORIS FROM MUTILATION In Uganda, a cruel practice of forcefully circumcising girls as young as 5 years – a ritual, where a girl’s clitoris is cut off to initiate her from childhood to adulthood is taking place.
Recorded over a month ago with an immigration lawyer and discussed different types of support that people can get.
JenniferJJacobs Well this is a combo punch of racism plus attack on educational institutions. Fuck this admin.
boooooooo
Can I go with them? So disgusting.
Wow. That’s really going to hurt schools.
If I’m a college, I set up 1 in-person class that is voluntary to attend “in-person”. Problem solved.
So NPR believes they should get a free pass at immigration because they went to school here? Taxpayers & there rights should come first at the opportunities this nation creates regardless of color.
This leaves me speechless. I know families hosting internationals right now while their colleges work on fall plans. They are happy to host the kids through next year if colleges can’t reopen. WTF is wrong with our gov’t? (Fuck Stephen Miller)
This is a pointless, mean-spirited and short-sighted policy. It ignores what this will do to our international students as human beings and jeopardizes future partnerships with some of the most talented, hard working people on the planet.
Gonna send those Chinese spies home. Cry away NPR. Any of you lose jobs to Chinese spies?
realDonaldTrump is a disgrace
hblodget Outrage heaped upon outrage
What about the fact that no other country will let people from the US in right now?
You do realize this isn’t always possible right
The US will kick these students out in the middle of a pandemic. Heartless. Shame on America.
LMAO more MAGA dumbfuckery
Could they attend if the courses are a combination of online and in person? This could be a way to get around the rule.
hblodget Cruelty and stupidity drive every Trump immigration policy.
America first
😠
I'm really confused why so many think this is punishment. This gives students the education they want and to be with their families. It helps their home countries as the students use that education to make their country better. Why is this bad?
Destroying foundation of the US.
Just another way to try to get rid of them. ...
Does this regulation mean that FulbrightPrgrm scholars may not get to go/return to the US colleges they worked hard to get into if their school goes online this fall? This is nuts. IMO we're shooting ourselves in the foot daily. SpeakerPelosi EdLaborCmte RepGusBilirakis
Genuinely dumbfounded by this. Is the goal to force school reopenings? Or is this just (again) opportunistic xenophobia taking hold?
No 😡
Most foreign student pay full tuition. Schools won’t like this one.
Not sure why the government forgets we are in a pandemic when it comes to foreigners. Students can not afford this and it isn’t their fault. I hope school come up with options for these students, since the US doesn’t care about them.
I believe professors & university faculty don’t just (BELIEVE IN) but owe it to ALL students (local, out-of-state & foreign). To make the 2020 Fall semester a combination of online & in-person (voluntary attendance) Enough of the bigotry! GOP AOC ProtectOurStudents💛
NordicKari This doesn't seem crazy. Is it? It is the Trump administration after all.
AmberLeeNews Here’s one way to make schools open by necessity during the peak of a global pandemic completely omitting of logic...students attend class; then head home to their parents, siblings & grandparents; infections go beyond the campus..further outbreaks in communities around the world
Wow, they wrong for that
You know how the top ranked college football programs recruit from outside their state? To get the very best athletes to play for their team? Apparently bonespurs doesn't.
More room for American students.
We’re just busy Making Canada Great, aren’t we?
This is an evil control strategy to force these learning institutions to open. This would put students/staffs health in unnecessary and grave danger. Not that this administration cares.😔
God bless the foreign students that *want* to be here during this protracted American shitshow we are living in. We are very sorry you are being targeted. The cruelty is the point. AmericanShitShow
I would move to Canada but I don’t speak Canadian
Sad. Other than the fact that a student travels abroad for quality education, its also about the fact that their mindset changes while in country. They appreciate the culture and the various people from different backgrounds.
Not Surprised! What else is New in the PMURT Shit Show
How does ICE have the power to do this? What authority are they working under to change educational policies for anyone?
Or you can let them stay/return/start and contribute to the economy via money they spend on tuition, rent, food, goods, services. . . realDonaldTrump IvankaTrump SpeakerPelosi WhiteHouse HouseDemocrats senatemajldr HouseGOP SenateFloor SenateGOP SenateDems
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Juve_SoCal An international student (F1 Visa) contributes to the economy much more than a group of local students: Living expenses, extremely high fee for the same education, All transactions in cash, Added values to the society. The immigration service still lives in Bush the father era.
Good. Priority should go to students of U.S. citizenship first.
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. The one act all GOP admins have in common is the Cutting of Education. Keep the masses ignorant, illiterate, & superstitious, & they become ez to manipulate.
this is so UNFAIR!!
Because, Hey, why would we want smart healthy kids here?
Why do you guys treat international students like criminals?
You know you’re all getting the gas right?
Sounds like it’s time to grow up😲
Wait until people realize how many of our healthcare workers are foreign students working while studying here for masters or doctorate degrees. If they’re all deported because their schools go online for fall, the impact will be profound.
The schools will be losing a lot of money because of thos decision.
Isn't there typically almost 1 million foreign students in America a year?
Bye bye
Finally
Another racist xenophobic move by the Trump mis-administration
Now colleges are forced to open campus despite the ongoing pandemics, sadly
Starving educational institutions: Trump plan for “I love the uneducated.” Im thinking some rich alumni will have an opinion about this insanity. Silicon Valley will have a LOT to say about foreign students being deported. Trump Worst President Ever!
W your paper degree w no real skills, you guys don’t even learn shit in these colleges but hate America! Go hate it in your own damn country!
I support the decision since you guys can’t stop fear-mongering the corona virus! Idiots!
Thanks to the TrumpVirus they are going to try a StudentBan We need to AbolishICE NOW
Thank god 🙂
Good call!
Close all American Universities until Covid is under control.
Today's ICE doc is detrimental to the education & future plans of so many. It will also damage the US economy & higher ed system. Read this table & watch the YT video pinned on my pg. to hear our story. Please RT to help. LiftTheTravelBan OpenUSConsulates EducationCannotWait
FUCK ice!
This is fucking ridiculous. You know this hurts? The schools who lose out of state tuition.
WHY?
If true, this is shameful.
1st refugees then immigrants then foreign visas then foreign spouses Then foreign students Then green cards Then recent naturalized citizens Then those traveling from abroad won’t be let in Already can’t travel out bcuz COVID Then political opponents, journalists, enemies Then u
So now colleges need to step up and offer a hybrid on campus class solution for these students.
Seriously, could we have the Government & Trump try to figure out how to be even more asinine, cruel, stupid, ... and all the terms in the rest of the dictionary defining 'authoritarian bullshit'? They seem to by trying for a Full House... and the cards that go with it...;0
ICE is clearly treating Foreign students like non-humans. Online classes are due to COVID. Other countries haven’t imposed such regulations on America students abroad.
Kingfreak491 Seems reasonable. You come to the U.S. for school, there’s no school so you go home right?
Good. More room for Americans.
The economic loss for some of them is already too big for getting into USA's education system, and the same program that 'lend them a hand' is now either forcing them to take an unnecessary risk or get out of the country? What kind of caveman believed this was a reasonable move?
Do they stay up all night thinking of the next cruel and vicious thing they can do to make innocent people’s lives more difficult? Sure seems like their strategy. I’ll be so glad when every last person in this administration is gone, gone, gone.
Thought the EU had a travel ban, are they making an exemption for students.
Smart. Maybe now our in-state kids will be able to get into our universities, which were chartered for IN-STATE citizens.
People are surprised? This is America. Scared of everyone who is from another country / not white. Pathetic country and leadership.
This smells like Stephen Miller.
Does this apply for both undergraduate or graduate students?
Cruelty is the point. This administration is horrible
What a gift for new libraries and 5-G speed capabilities.....
Also a way to force universities to re-open against public health advice. There's no bottom to this administration.
Two questions: 1] Can an international student arrange a “study abroad” year at another US school that is offering in-person instruction? 2] What will an international student do if their country has banned travel from the US because of our botched pandemic response?
Beyond his run-of-the-mill racism, someone tell me why this is a problem?
Oblivious.
This is deeply stupid policy.
What appropriate timing since the majority of international students are from China
The vast majority of foreign students are non-white, so this fits with Trump's Make America White Again strategy. His base knows exactly what he's doing.
This is NOT a new policy!!!! The rules to study in the USA is very simple and have been around for a long time.
Slightly off topic but I think that online education should only offer certification. I’m all for “hybrid” systems though. Online education seems to be very predatory and sketchy. A proper certification along with a degree can be a very useful thing. I have BA and APICS-logistics
cruella devos
Universities are a dying model of education.
Well, why do they need to be here if they are attending an on-line college?
This is entirely insane, what about students from overseas countries who needs thousands of dollars just to secure 3 flights to get back home ! This can’t be tolerated especially during this pandemic !
Taking advantage of a pandemic to push their anti-immigrant stances. What happened to 'they're not sending us their best'? These college students and future leaders are their best!
Something is seriously wrong with the U.S. system of checks and balances if one agency in the administration can suddenly issue a decree like this and we the people have no recourse.
They contribute massively to the economy. We are a stupid country and by the looks of it we are staying that way.
Excellent you can do it from home now...but Harvard will still charge $49,000 a year
I'm sure many will find a second home in Canada... the US is so FKD//
mizSafaa
This is just gross.
America FIRST!
Makes sense
'According to new federal regulations.' Way to make it sound neutral and innocuous, . How about 'according to a needlessly cruel, completely unnecessary policy the anti-immigrant Trump administration is putting forward.'
It would be taking classes online from their home...which is what happened when the Democrats screamed that Liberty University was staying open illegally and had to send home their foreign students. There are plenty of colleges opening up. Blame the colleges staying closed.
Derwood is running every aspect of his regime as what the ancient Greeks used to call 'a stupendous clusterfuck'
Why?
sure, now's the time to create more work for people who actually do the work for no apparent reason, other than being bat shit scared of foreigners.
This is so unfair! They are still in college and receiving an education!
what authority does the U.S. 'federal's have to say who can and can't be in the 'US'?
Abolish ice
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