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The Trump Administration has ordered US embassies to halt all student visa applications as the president cracks down on America's higher education business. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has directed officials to stop scheduling appointments with student visa applicants as they prepare to implement a social media vetting process, according to a cable obtained by Politico. 'Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued septel, which we anticipate in the coming...

Some colleges and universities may be getting way too close to the debate over U. S. border security. “When officials at Indiana’s Ivy Tech Community College allowed the Mexican consulate to use their East Chicago campus as a satellite office for three days last month, they unknowingly plunged headlong into the nation’s red-hot immigration debate,” Ben Leubsdorf reported in the June 23rd Chronicle of Higher Education. “J. Guadalupe Valtierra, chancellor of Ivy Tech’s northwest region, says the mobile consulate is operated by the Mexican consulate in Chicago to serve Mexican citizins in Illinois, Indiana, and other neighboring states.” “In 2000,...