Posted on 07/07/2020 9:50:45 AM PDT by Red Badger
International students will be forced to leave the U.S. or transfer to another college if their schools offer classes entirely online this fall, under new guidelines issued Monday by federal immigration authorities.
The guidelines, issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, provide additional pressure for universities to reopen even amid growing concerns about the recent spread of COVID-19 among young adults. Colleges received the guidance the same day that some institutions, including Harvard University, announced that all instruction will be offered remotely.
President Trump has insisted that schools and colleges return to in-person instruction as soon as possible. Soon after the guidance was released, Trump repeated on Twitter that schools must reopen this fall, adding that Democrats want to keep schools closed “for political reasons, not for health reasons.”
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I’ll match your shutdown with deportations.
“Play along with the Democrats’ little game of keeping the economy depressed and I’ll eliminate all of your sweet income from foreign student tuition”.
Once again, playing 4D chess.
So the students now go to their home countries, continue to pay tuition to the universities and take online classes, but no longer stimulate our economy by paying rent, eating in restaurants, shopping, etc.
Once again, playing 4D chess.
This sounds like double-reverse one handed underwater 4D chess.
Our university went to all on-line in the middle of March. Poor guy has nowhere to go.
Reminds me of that Tom Hanks film where he's stuck in an airport.
Has a judge in an obscure court district ruled on this yet?
And they no longer get to steal our intellectual property and technology. I’m sure for some 39 year old ‘’students’’ this is going to be hard.
I’m not really a fan of coercing colleges into in-class teaching via this route.
Just get the government out of funding higher ed—and get illegals out of our country.
Trump was able to do this overnight.
The ideas you listed take months, more likely years.
From a practical standpoint we should probably maintain a travel ban on China for quite long time. They could spring another pandemic on us at any time.
Everyone is pretending this is a NEW rule. It isn’t. F1 visas have long required in-person classes rather than online. (I think one online class was permitted)
“Poor guy has nowhere to go.”
Maybe we could do a Go-Fund-Me and send him to flight school.
Online students continue to fund US universities but won’t be eligible for various visas used by big business to get around H1B visa limits.
They’d work as a “student” and a year or two after graduation while applying for residency and H1B visas, screwing American graduates out of jobs across the board. That’s aside from the L-1 visa that Obama abused to let the spouses of H1B visa holders illegally work in the US.
Thousands of foreign students in U.S. on student visas may have ‘worked’ for fake companies
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/thousands-foreign-students-u-s-student-visas-may-have-worked-n1109286
I sense that you are on the side of globalist “free trade”. Next you will say out economy will suffer because these foreign students will not be able to work in America and multinational corporations will be forced to hire stupid Americans.
But the value of this? IMO it is negative. Will force more colleges to stick to in-class teaching. Now way too costly and inefficient for the amount of learning that is taking place. I’m fine with kicking foreign students out for now, but this contingency is counterproductive. Also, if indeed they spring a nastier bug on us this fall, that’ll likely make the instructors, especially, sitting ducks for the new bioweapon.
IT MAKES SENSE.
If classes are available on line then there is no need to be here.....................
Not to worry universities are working on this. Berkeley is building single pods for one class that the anthropology department is setting up. I’m sure other colleges will follow suit.
If the goal is simply to hurt the universities I guess this might make some sense. Not sure that's a great objective for the federal government, but fine.
There's no question this will also hurt private landlords and restaurant owners as well.
And the students will get the same education and the universities will get the same tuition.
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