Trump Administration Rescinds Rule on Foreign Students (apnews.com) 27
Facing eight federal lawsuits and opposition from hundreds of universities, the Trump administration on Tuesday rescinded a rule that would have required international students to transfer or leave the country if their schools held classes entirely online because of the pandemic. From a report: The decision was announced at the start of a hearing in a federal lawsuit in Boston brought by Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs said federal immigration authorities agreed to pull the July 6 directive and "return to the status quo." A lawyer representing the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said only that the judge's characterization was correct.
The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country, along with hundreds of universities that were scrambling to reassess their plans for the fall in light of the policy. Under the policy, international students in the U.S. would have been forbidden from taking all their courses online this fall. New visas would not have been issued to students at schools planning to provide all classes online, which includes Harvard. Students already in the U.S. would have faced deportation if they didn't transfer schools or leave the country voluntarily.
The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country, along with hundreds of universities that were scrambling to reassess their plans for the fall in light of the policy. Under the policy, international students in the U.S. would have been forbidden from taking all their courses online this fall. New visas would not have been issued to students at schools planning to provide all classes online, which includes Harvard. Students already in the U.S. would have faced deportation if they didn't transfer schools or leave the country voluntarily.
paranoid narcissism (Score:1, Flamebait)
One-legged man in an arse-kicking competition. But he's gonna Make America Great Again!
Re: We have the best people (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump has fired many of his own appointments (too many to list) and yet nobody calls him on that and his foolish blind supporters keep insisting he has great judgement.
Re: We have the best people (Score:2)
Also need to point out that Trump has judged others by that standard .. remember when he said Jeb Bush was lacking judgement because his brother nominated John Roberts to the supreme court.
Re: We have the best people (Score:5, Insightful)
Trump has fired many of his own appointments (too many to list) and yet nobody calls him on that and his foolish blind supporters keep insisting he has great judgement.
Plenty of people call him on that. Just not his supporters. They either tend to not call him on anything or claim a false equivalency that most politicians do it at a similar scale. Trump isn't trying to win over people who care about this kind of stuff. He wants to rile up his base and suppress voting overall. The unfortunate thing is this really is a winning strategy, just hopefully not this time.
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And it's win-win here for Trump. First, he denied the foreign students, which makes the anti-immigrant wing of his base very happy, then now he can say he was pressured by the liberal elite to change this ruling against his will, which makes the liberals-are-destroying-us wing riled up. Meanwhile, he bad mouths Fauci for flip-flopping because evidence has changed over time, but he'd fine with flip-flopping himself because it's only bad if other people do it.
(Flip-flopping is just the dumbest sort of polit
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The concept of "advisor" is totally lost on him, he only keeps the 'advisors' that do and say what he tells them to do. There's a saying, "A good leader surrounds himself with people smarter than he is." He's convinced he knows it all, he doesn't, and he's in charge. God help us all...
Great News (Score:3)
Many of the students would be punished for events outside their control. I was once on a student visa, and I remember how difficult it was to balance coursework and always living at the edge of poverty. Once all said and done, I was able to get a full time job, and now can contribute to the society.
Most of these people would want to do the same. They came here for a good education, and usually stay because it is a great country. But they now have to endure the additional burden of the covid lockdown without already existing research load, courses, and always persistent difficulties.
It is good to hear that they reached a solution.
Re: Great News (Score:2)
It won't help a large number of students though. Embassies remain closed for regular visas and the border remains closed to much of the world. If you don't already have a visa and aren't already in the United States, there's still a host of obstacles in your path.
BS (Score:4, Insightful)
"The announcement brings relief to thousands of foreign students who had been at risk of being deported from the country, along with hundreds of universities that were scrambling to reassess their plans for the fall in light of the policy."
This is all just universities banking on facilitating insourcing via loopholes in student visa policy. Not enough h1bs to displace your US workers to dilute salaries as much as you'd like, np, just have them get the usual diploma mill degree and then jump on a fast track MA/PHD scam from a respectable US University at the highest possible rate. When they are done their advanced degree facilitates keeping them on more stable ongoing basis.
Great news! (Score:3, Insightful)
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Unfortunately, I suspect the worst is about to come. Watch what happens if or when he ever starts to think there is a chance he will lose the next election.
Damage is already done. (Score:2)
The hostility shown by the current administration has scared off
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" These students are usually children of ultra rich people who dress like models and drive super expensive cars. India too sends such rich students but not in that many numbers. "
What do the RWNJ's say about that? After all, they are the ones screaming the loudest about the Chinese being communist.
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Actually no, Biden was getting money from the Ukraine. You didn't hear Hillary say anything about that....
Personally, I'm going to write in Sanders.
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Are you sure it will be counted? For example, California doesn't count votes for write in candidates, unless the candidates have registered.
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Next time you pull things out of your ass, keep them to yourself. Nobody wants to smell your shit, stop asking. Lying asshole.
What it looks like (Score:2)
It looks to me like they wanted to be assholes, but then it got to be too much trouble so they gave up.
There was never any justification for the action other than they just wanted to be assholes to some non-white group that couldn't fight back. Their supporters absolutely love them for that. But then it turns out the demographic had supporters that would fight back after all (it is about money after all) so they folded like a soggy dixie cup.
Re:What it looks like (Score:4, Insightful)
This was indeed stupid but has nothing to do with your laughable knee-jerk "non white" comment. It has to do with that buffoon wanting to force schools to open thinking he can just force the economy to open and somehow salvage the one talking point he thinks he has - "the economy", before the election.
He thought he would force them to open for classes so they don't lose students - he thought wrong.
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Well it is good they saw reason... (Score:2)
But the real question is, did they field test this idea at all? What was the problem that this was supposed to fix? Did they workshop any other ideas?
Or was it just "foreigners bad"?