taxes at work https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/13/world/coronavirus-updates.html#link-5e50a4d8 17 states join legal effort to block a rule that revokes visas from foreign students taking virtual classes. Seventeen states and the District of Columbia sued the Trump administration on Monday, seeking to block a new rule that would revoke the visas of foreign students who take classes entirely online in the fall. The rule, issued a week ago, would upend months of careful planning by colleges and universities, the lawsuit says, and could force many students to return to their home countries during the pandemic, where their ability to study would be severely compromised. “The Trump administration didn’t even attempt to explain the basis for this senseless rule, which forces schools to choose between keeping their international students enrolled and protecting the health and safety of their campuses,” Maura Healey, the Massachusetts attorney general, said in a statement announcing the suit, which accuses the administration of violating the Administrative Procedure Act. The action, filed in U.S. District Court in Boston, is the latest legal effort to contest the federal edict, which has been described by states and universities in court filings as a politically motivated attempt by the Trump administration to force universities to hold in-person classes this fall, even as many have announced they will remain largely online because of health concerns. California filed its own lawsuit last week, after Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology had already gone to court seeking to block the new rule. Arguments in the Harvard and M.I.T. case are scheduled to be heard on Tuesday, also in the district court in Boston. The federal guidance issued by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which says foreign students earning their degrees entirely online cannot stay in the United States, has sent students scrambling to enroll in in-person classes that are difficult to find. Many universities are planning to offer a mix of online and in-person classes to protect the health of faculty, students and their surrounding communities during the pandemic. The White House press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, defended the administration’s actions at a news conference earlier last week. “You don’t get a visa for taking online classes from, let’s say, University of Phoenix. So why would you if you were just taking online classes, generally?” she told reporters, adding, “Perhaps the better lawsuit would be coming from students who have to pay full tuition with no access to in-person classes to attend.” The area represented by the 17 states and the District of Columbia contains 1,124 colleges and universities that had a combined 373,000 international students enrolled in 2019, who contributed an estimated $14 billion to the economy that year, according to the complaint. About 40 higher education institutions filed declarations in support of the lawsuit, including Yale, DePaul, the University of Chicago, Tufts, Rutgers and state universities in Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Universiteis scared of losing their cash cows. but to play devil's advocate here. If someone got into even Harvard for a 1 year masters and Harvard told them the class will be 100% virtual.....why does the student need to come here then on a visa? On another note, with all that is going on right now in the government, why is the administration concerned about people coming here legally on a visa who are easily tracked and often go back home or stay if they find a job. In other words, these are legal entries into the U.S. and never the main concern of immigration policies. International students make up maybe 6 or 7% or total student populations, they pay higher tuitions. Why is this even an issue?
in defense of students, that only need apply to new freshmen or transfers, what about the kid that's stuck stateside? To your 2nd point, WH's been pushing hard for school reopenings for some god damn reason; travel expenses, entertainment, fast food joints, who knows what their retarded logic is. This is their way to extort schools into re-opening. Today, Donnie said today he'd considered bribing with extra money schools that re-opened.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/14/politics/immigration-harvard-visa-policy-online-only/index.html Trump administration drops restrictions on online-only instruction for foreign students (CNN)The Trump administration has rescinded its policy that would bar international students who only take online courses from staying in the US, a federal judge announced Tuesday in Boston. The decision comes a little over a week after Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced that students at schools offering only online courses due to the coronavirus pandemic would need to either leave the US or transfer schools.
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/01/politics/us-refugee-cap-fy21/index.html Trump administration sets refugee cap at 15,000, a new historic low Washington (CNN)The Trump administration has informed Congress it intends to accept only 15,000 refugees this fiscal year, a new historic low for the US. Since coming into office in 2017, the Trump administration has increasingly slashed the annual refugee cap, which determines how many may enter the US, to deeper lows. President Donald Trump has repeatedly demonized refugees, particularly those from Muslim-majority countries -- most recently at a campaign rally Wednesday evening. The proposed 2021 cap was denounced by humanitarian organizations and Democratic lawmakers. In a media note sent less than an hour before the end of fiscal year 2020 on Wednesday, the State Department said it had informed Congress of the proposed cap and said the US "anticipates receiving more than 300,000 new refugees and asylum claims in Fiscal Year 2021." However, the vast majority of those would be asylum cases. "Of that number, up to 15,000 would be refugees admitted through the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program and more than 290,000 would be individuals in new asylum cases," the State Department note said.
Here, this is for the university children. Hopefully they are not too fucking stupid and shallow to understand this song, because they will be our world leaders in 40 years... That's a free one. The rest will cost money from the Gen Z/2000 whatever if they request it, because they are too into their smartphone screens to think for themselves.
Birds of a feather... https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-...aces-after-trump-doesnt-condemn-white-1535776
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-halts-trumps-order-to-suspend-work-visas/ Judge Halts Trump’s Order to Suspend Work Visas OAKLAND, Calif. (CN) — President Donald Trump overstepped his authority in issuing a sweeping proclamation suspending certain types of non-immigration work visas through the end of the year, a federal judge said Thursday in a ruling barring the order from being applied to dozens of companies and members of industry groups that opposed it. Trump cited the pandemic-driven economic downturn when he temporarily barred entry, with limited exceptions, to foreign workers through the H-1B, H-2B, J-1 and L-1 labor pipelines. His April proclamation applies to workers in specialized industries like tech, seasonal laborers, cultural exchange program participants and executives seeking intra-company transfers to the United States. A coalition of groups representing thousands of American businesses, including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, National Association of Manufacturers, National Retail Federation, Microsoft, Amazon and cultural exchange group Intrex all sued to block its enforcement, saying if left in place, the restrictions would upend the Immigration and Nationality Act’s visa regulations and trigger severe labor shortages.