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babylonsister

(171,079 posts) Mon Jul 6, 2020, 04:55 PM Jul 2020

ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country if Their Schools Are Going Online-Only

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/ice-tells-foreign-students-to-leave-the-country-if-their-schools-are-going-online-only/

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ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country if Their Schools Are Going Online-Only
Unless they can find a way to transfer to a new school before the fall.
Noah Lanard

The Trump administration is giving a draconian choice to foreign students at schools that plan to offer only online courses this fall: Quickly transfer to a school with in-person classes or leave the country.

The new policy announced on Monday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement comes as colleges debate how to safely reopen amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Some schools are resuming in-person courses; others are adopting hybrid models that combine in-person and online courses; and some are going fully online.

With classes set to begin in September, it’s not clear how students would be able to transfer to a new university in time to stay in the United States. That may be the point.

After failing to get Congress to cut legal immigration, the White House has succeeded in using the pandemic as an excuse to shut off nearly all ways for people to come to the United States. Now it’s extending that crackdown to some students who are already in the country.

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ICE Tells Foreign Students to Leave the Country if Their Schools Are Going Online-Only (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2020 OP

This dystopia really sucks renate Jul 2020 #1

The administration of psychopaths. madaboutharry Jul 2020 #2

Harvard just announced online only unc70 Jul 2020 #3

Damn these bigots. blm Jul 2020 #4

This will result in another brain drain for the country. Lars39 Jul 2020 #5

This situation is even more nuanced than online v. not as to foreign students Ms. Toad Jul 2020 #6

Best part of attending college was meeting other brilliant minds at140 Jul 2020 #7

renate

(13,776 posts)

1. This dystopia really sucks

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 04:58 PM

Jul 2020

Everything just keeps getting uglier and uglier.

madaboutharry

(40,219 posts)

2. The administration of psychopaths.

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Mon Jul 6, 2020, 05:01 PM

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unc70

(6,117 posts)

3. Harvard just announced online only

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Mon Jul 6, 2020, 05:02 PM

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blm

(113,083 posts)

4. Damn these bigots.

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Mon Jul 6, 2020, 05:03 PM

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Lars39

(26,110 posts)

5. This will result in another brain drain for the country.

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Mon Jul 6, 2020, 05:05 PM

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Ms. Toad

(34,086 posts)

6. This situation is even more nuanced than online v. not as to foreign students

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 05:10 PM

Jul 2020

Most foreign students are only permitted to take a certain number of online classes AND are also required to maintain a minimum number of credits. So in a school that is offering some classes online and others in person, a student can lose their vsia either by having already met or exceeded the number of hours OR by failing to maintain the required number of credit hours.

We wrestle with this (and occasionally our part time curriculum is driven by) what is needed for foreign students to be able to remain in the country (since we specifically seek students licensed to practice law in their own country who want a JD in the US to be able to sit for a US license to practice law)

at140

(6,110 posts)

7. Best part of attending college was meeting other brilliant minds

Reply to babylonsister (Original post)

Mon Jul 6, 2020, 05:17 PM

Jul 2020

How boring it has to be to be restricted to on-line only college. I would not last 4 weeks.
I also improved my command of English by attending the university as a full time foreign student.
On-line courses would have deprived me of enhancing my speaking skills.

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