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NAFSA Releases Initial Analysis of #Visa #Revocations and other Actions Targeting #International #Students and #Scholars. NAFSA is able to provide some preliminary information about the size, scale, and nature of the #enforcement actions affecting international students and scholars in the #UnitedStates. As of April 10, there have been > 800 reports of international students and scholars either having their visa revoked and/or their record in SEVIS terminated. https://www.nafsa.org/reports-of-actions-targeting-international-students #Lawfedi
First #Trump Targeted #ProPalestine #Students. Now All Kinds of Foreign Students Are at Risk.
Trump Appears to Be Targeting Muslim and “#NonWhite” Students for Deportation
Students from Muslim-majority countries as well as Asia and Africa are having their visas revoked with little or no explanation.
By Jonah Valdez, April 8, 2025
"With little or no justification, the Trump administration is revoking the visas and immigration statuses of hundreds of international students under the Student Exchange and Visitor Program, leaving them vulnerable to detention and deportation, according to attorneys representing international #scholars who have filed new lawsuits against the Trump administration."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/04/08/trump-immigration-international-student-visas-deport/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/Dt7JN
#MarcoRubio #KristiNoem #USPol #TrumpIsABully #Deportations #Braindrain
#Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked
Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning
By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025
"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more #StudentVisas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be #activism.
"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, #scholars have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in #DetentionCenters, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.
"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders.
"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation.
"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus #protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.
"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to #FreeSpeech and to assemble, experts and advocates said."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Clampdown #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #RightToAssemble #FirstAmendment #USPol
Looks like the American Association of University Professors agrees with me!
#AAUP, Allies Sue over #Trump Policy of Arresting and Threatening to Deport #Students and #Faculty for #LawfulSpeech
"The national AAUP; chapters at #Harvard, #Rutgers, and #NYU; and the #MiddleEastStudies Association today filed a lawsuit seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members who participate in #ProPalestinian #protests and other protected #FirstAmendment activities.
"We believe that the administration’s ideological-deportation policy violates the First Amendment by targeting constitutionally protected speech that Americans have a right to hear and engage with. The policy has created a climate of fear and repression on campuses around the country. We are represented in the case by the #KnightFirstAmendmentInstitute at #ColumbiaUniversity, #AhilanArulanantham, and Zimmer, Citron & Clarke LLP.
"Following executive orders issued by President Trump in January, the federal agencies that enforce immigration laws have arrested and detained several people associated with U.S. colleges and universities, including a legal permanent resident, on the basis of constitutionally protected speech and association.
"Today’s filing argues that the ideological-deportation policy has created a climate of #repression and intense fear on university #campuses, 'terrorizing students and faculty for their exercise of First Amendment rights in the past, intimidating them from exercising those rights now, and silencing political viewpoints that the government disfavors.'
"'The Trump administration is going after international #scholars and students who speak their minds about #Palestine, but make no mistake: they won't stop there. They'll come next for those who teach the history of #slavery or who provide #GenderAffirming health care or who research #ClimateChange or who counsel students about their reproductive choices. We all have to draw a line together—as the old labor movement slogan says: an injury to one is an injury to all,' says AAUP President Todd Wolfson.
"'The First Amendment means the government can’t arrest, detain, or deport people for lawful political expression—it’s as simple as that. This practice is one we’d ordinarily associate with the most repressive political regimes, and it should have no place in our democracy,' says #JameelJaffer, executive director at the Knight First Amendment Institute."
Source:
https://www.aaup.org/news/aaup-allies-sue-over-trump-policy-arresting-and-threatening-deport-students-and-faculty-lawful
#RightToProtest #SilencingDissent #USPol #CharacteristicsOfFascism #law
#immigration #FreeSpeech #MarcoRubio #Trump #FreedomOfAssembly #Authoritarianism #Palestine #CriminalizingDissent #HigherEducation
Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:
This server has additional features including much longer post lengths and local server-only post visibility options.
You can find out more about hcommons.social at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello
Let's create games that encourage kids to become better #communicators:
to prevent violence
to overcome rumors
to build strong personal relationships
to support healthier communities
We believe this can be done with games, do you?
Help us reach the designers & devs who could envision & build such games
We want to reward them but first must reach them
@Minnesota411988 Thank you! Of course I should have included the title, Book and Dagger, and the author, Elyse Graham. #Librarians and #scholars and #WWII buffs especially take note.
#Trump’s #executiveorders already face #pushback, #legal #challenges.
His #fascist #orders include some #actions that #scholars and #legalexperts say may be beyond the reach of the #president’s pen and could be tied up in #courts or #legislatures for years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/01/21/trump-executive-orders-challenges-lawsuits/
The exchanges take place at shrines to Sugawara no Michizane (845–903), a Heian period poet, scholar, and politician who ended up exiled. He died in exile! After he died, drought and plague struck Heian-Kyō, and people thought it must be Michizane's angry spirit. They built a shine to him and eventually he became a god. Today he's a god of scholarship. Pray to him to pass your exams!
Here he is in exile in Dazaifu, on Kyushu. #Japan #history #gods #scholars
(2/x)
“Inserting prevailing #WageStandards & other worker-friendly rules into domestic-spending programs is one of the reasons that many #scholars & #union ofcls have come to view Joe #Biden as the most pro-#labor POTUS since FDR, a designation he has proudly embraced. And yet awareness of these policies hasn’t always filtered down to the rank & file.“
Hi, #scholars, tell us, why are you on #Mastodon?
We are researching how and why academics use Mastodon compared to other platforms. Is it key for #academic #discourse?
We'll launch our #research survey by mid-October, so stay tuned.
Meanwhile: what features of Mastodon do you find most valuable for academic discourse?
And which other questions should we include in our research, you think?
Hcommons.social is a Hometown Mastodon server for humanities scholars and practitioners around the world:
Hometown Mastodon servers have extra features like longer posts, additional post visibility settings etc.
You can find out more about Hcommons.social at https://hcommons.social/about or contact the admin @hello
Hundreds of #CommunityLeaders, #scholars and allies in #Indigenous post-secondary #education from around the globe will be gathering at the fourth #STEṈISTOLW̱Conference at #CamosunCollege’s Lansdowne campus.
Over 430 attendees from #Canada, the #UnitedStates and #NewZealand, will attend the event from Aug. 20 to 23.
The #conference aims to build and strengthen relationships and networks in reciprocity by fostering shared learning and exchange.
Hosted by Eyēʔ Sqȃ’lewen: The Centre for #IndigenousEducation & #CommunityConnections, this year’s conference theme is ‘Where the Waters Meet’.
An #Honest #Assessment of #Rural #WhiteResentment Is Long #Overdue.
We admit #rural #America is #hurting. But we refuse to #justify #racist #attitudes that some #scholars try to #underplay.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #AntiSemitism #Homophobia #Misogyny #Racism #Transphobia #WhiteSupremacy #Xenophobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #BlackMastodon
https://newrepublic.com/article/180570/trump-rural-white-resentment-honest-assessment
For my birthday today, I received another loss in #solo #Scholars of the South Tigris but I got a lot closer compared to my first game.
I'm really liking this #game so far but not sure yet if I like it, or #Wayfarers more.
Yes, #JKRowling, the #Nazis #persecuted #trans #people, #burned #books.
Rowling questioned a #socialmedia #post that mentioned this calling it a #feverdream, but #scholars point out that it indeed happened.
https://www.advocate.com/transgender/jk-rowling-nazis-persecuted-transgender
Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies - Disrupted Ukrainian #Scholars and #Students Initiative welcomes applications from Ukrainian scholars, writers, filmmakers, & visual artists
Дослідні гранти на українську та українсько-канадську тематику
Further information on CIUS #grants, #fellowships, and #scholarships
(CIUS Awards Portal) 