A few weeks before my wife came to the US from China, she was invited to join the Communist Party. The invitation came from the party "representative" for her department (she was in grad school in China).
She told him she'd get back to him on that, then a few days later boarded a plane to the United States.
About six months after we were married, we traveled to (a big city in the northeast US) and met ... him! The party representative!
He was studying for his PhD at a famous university in that city. No hard feelings. He had a new pretty wife himself, and I don't think he was planning to go back.
Based on that request, my guess is that something was found on their 'electronic devices' that CBP did not like. Malware waiting to be planted? Chinese govt. type spyware? Child porn?
With the way the world is going, it could also be that the students are Christians of the non-state-approved variety.
What business is it of some damn college whether their students make it back? Do they defend students who go to jail too?
I’m sick of this crap. The pres wench at my little college does exactly this kind of presumptuous nonsense...defending foreign nationals and illegals at all costs.
Sounds similar to the story of the Palestinian Harvard student a few weeks ago. The university pulled a few stings and they were allowed to enter and return to school.
I suspect the same thing will happen here. That is unless, these Chinese students had run afoul of the Chinese government and were sent back upon the Chi-Coms request. If that is the case, we will never hear from them again.
“In our country, where we value due process and celebrate the different ways in which our government behaves from that of the arbitrary and capricious behaviour of other nations, it is beyond my comprehension how the US government could establish and implement policies that bring about the outcomes we are now witnessing,” [ASU President]Crow wrote.
“. . . it is beyond my comprehension . . ..” Yes, it probably is, President Crow. This statement says much more about you than about the event. You cannot think of any valid reason, any valid reason at all about why these “students” were denied entry?
I can think of at least a half a dozen off the top of my head, starting with spying.
Zampolitsiya
ASU? Are we sure they weren’t just there to party?
Sum Ting Wong, officer ?
Chinese student/agents have been involved in scientific and technology espionage for decades here. Professors I know at ASU told me of numerous incidents where students were observed and caught copying documents, and computer files which were assumed to have been sent back to China. Finally, someone is doing something other than just looking the other way.
Unless it's red flag laws of course. Then no due process allowed.
Student spies working for the government
The family appeared, and had piles of cash to open their business. Money was never an object. The soon bought several houses, cars, clothes, and paid a tuition. They had several children who were attending schools and colleges.
The person I spoke to said the entire "family" was nothing but a well funded Chinese spy ring, and that these "families" are funded by the Chinese government. These cells of spy rings are placed all over the United States.
Not verifying this 100%, but you can draw your conclusions.
Best guess: They inspected their phones and laptops and found evidence that they could likely be involved with espionage.
““In our country, where we value due process and celebrate the different ways in which our government behaves from that of the arbitrary and capricious behaviour of other nations, it is beyond my comprehension”
The person making that statement does not belong in any college position, they are too ignorant.
They are ignorant of the Constitution and the law. Foreign nationals here on a student visa do not have a green card and are neither citizens nor permanent legal residents. Their continued stay here is subject to the laws that determine what is and is not legal behavior, of any kind, on their part. And, no, the law does not require a court date for the Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) to send them back, only a CBP finding justifying their departure is sufficient.