Boston-area academics are facing bans on entering US

Source: Boston Globe

President Trump’s order closing the nation’s borders to people from seven predominantly Muslim countries echoed across Boston’s academic institutions and research laboratories Saturday, blocking some scholars from entering the country and leaving scores more in limbo.

The directive, which also halts refugees worldwide from entering the United States for 120 days, prompted leaders at schools like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Northeastern University to offer support to students and academics whose lives may be upended by the order.

The full extent of the upheaval triggered by the new rules wasn’t immediately clear, but researchers at Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital were among those who lost incoming scholars to the travel ban.

A White House petition was also launched on behalf of an MIT student who was blocked from returning to Boston from Iran, where she spent winter break at home.

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