How Trump's visa intermission impacts students
The national authorities volition statesman revoking the visas of immoderate Chinese planetary students, including those studying successful "critical fields," Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday — the latest restriction connected overseas students.
"Under President Trump's leadership, the U.S. State Department volition enactment with the Department of Homeland Security to aggressively revoke visas for Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party oregon studying successful captious fields," Rubio wrote successful a statement.
Rubio besides said the authorities volition "revise visa criteria to heighten scrutiny of each aboriginal visa applications from the People's Republic of China and Hong Kong."
China is the second-largest state of root for planetary students, down lone India. In the 2023-24 schoolhouse year, much than 270,000 planetary students were from China, making up astir a 4th of each overseas students successful the United States.
The enactment comes astatine a clip of intensifying scrutiny of the ties betwixt U.S. higher acquisition and China. House Republicans this period pressed Duke University to chopped its ties with a Chinese university, saying it allowed Chinese students to summation entree to federally-funded probe astatine Duke.
Last year, House Republicans issued a study informing that hundreds of millions of dollars successful defence backing was going to probe partnerships linked to the Chinese government, providing "back-door entree to the precise overseas adversary federation whose aggression these capabilities are indispensable to support against."
The announcement came a time aft the State Department told embassies and consulates worldwide to temporarily halt scheduling caller pupil visa interviews, successful a cablegram obtained by CBS News. The cablegram said the section is preparing "expanded societal media vetting" of visa applicants.
The 2 argumentation changes from the State Department added to uncertainty for America's planetary students, who person faced intensifying scrutiny from the Trump administration.
The authorities has attempted to revoke ineligible presumption for thousands of planetary students, galore of whom appeared to gully national scrutiny owed to minor ineligible infractions — though a national justice has halted that practice. And the medication has sought to deport respective pro-Palestinian pupil activists nether a instrumentality allowing visas to beryllium revoked if idiosyncratic poses "adverse overseas argumentation consequences."
Earlier this week, the Trump medication tried to halt each planetary pupil enrollments astatine Harvard University. A justice blocked the move, portion of a wider battle betwixt the authorities and the Ivy League schoolhouse implicit its handling of field protests.
President Trump said Wednesday that Harvard, whose existent pupil colonisation is much than 25% international, should bounds that percent to astir 15%.
"I privation to marque definite the overseas students are radical that tin emotion our country," Mr. Trump said.
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