The Trump administration abruptly walked back its cancellation of more than 1,500 visas held by international students on Friday, announcing a dramatic shift by ICE during a court hearing in Washington. https://nyti.ms/4lIMsXT
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I see the FBI have now arrested a Wisconsin Judge over her allegedly hindering an ICE case. Good grief! ICE and the FBI are going too far now! This never would’ve happened under any other president. Your nation is an utter disgrace!
I’m going to add : confusing flip-flop to my list of how this Admin operates. My previous take was: Deny. Distract. Deflect.
I suppose the flip-flop is part of the Distract mantra….
Do most people think that this oppression of rights will end with immigrants?! That things will go “back to normal” in four years? What is being quickly broken in our democracy does not get fixed. Future administrations will not restore all that has been lost.
I assume he got calls from wealthy Chinese Communist Party members who send their children to US colleges and universities, and a few UAE members, too.
Trump is trying to replace America’s Constitutional Republic with a Fascist, Christian-Nationalist, White-Supremacist Kleptocracy. His Sycophants ignore the Constitution, the law, and the courts to protect his crimes. Dems will flip the House and the Senate in 2026, and take the Presidency in 2028.
I would not be surprised if they reinstated them all because some of them might have been here to become rocket scientists or others destined to work in Musk's business. He said something and instead of releasing just those...they had to release all or face scrutiny.
Does thatn give them enough time to put in applications for studies outside the USA? Because in their shoes I would not stay a day more than I absolutely had to.
This on/off stuff is apparently deliberately destabilizing. Can’t run any kind of institution/organization this way. Makes it hard to plan & heightens anxiety.
Donald Trump Plumbing We start by determining you don’t really need all this water flowing in and out of your house, tear out the pipes along with all the home’s wiring, sell it all for scrap, then, after the homeowners start chasing us down the street, realize, yes, you do need water in your house
The way of Trump: do something outlandish, stupid, and/ or morally reprehensible to get attention. Wait a few days while people stew. Walk back whatever stupid thing you have done so that it never happens. Get more attention to feed his narcissistically sick brain. Accomplish nothing (thankfully).
This "accomplished" a lot :( It discourages new intl students from taking acceptances in fall. Which in turn does significant financial damage to the universities as international students pay full tuition
I finally see the point of all this. Do lasting damage even w/ strategy that'd lose in court
Trump and his Gestapo ICE agents were about to get their asses handed to them by several different federal judges over this international student visa cancellation stupidity. So they folded.
Maybe the deciding factor is the majority of these "students" are from wealthy families? idk...$$ probably played into the decision making, and in my many years on this planet, I learned that the almighty dollar drives a lot of things...
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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-admin-restoring-student-visas-ice-framework-termination-rcna203024
I suppose the flip-flop is part of the Distract mantra….
https://newrepublic.com/post/194420/trump-memecoin-dinner-corrupt-president
Of course Trump reversed his decision to take away student visas:
It probably had to do with money$$$:
Foreign countries and students bring billions into USA economy.
Those with visas as recent alumni are a different matter ...
I finally see the point of all this. Do lasting damage even w/ strategy that'd lose in court
Why did they reverse it? What was even the point in the first place, actually?
It's just all so ... pointlessly chaotic.
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