Hundreds of international students have just received an email telling them their visas have been revoked.
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
The ‘justification’ is campus activism or social media posts.
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/hundreds-of-international-students-are-waking-up-to-an-email-asking-them-to-self-deport-for-campus-activism-or-even-sharing-posts-on-social-media/articleshow/119679695.cms
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What's happening to the "land of the free"?
#stopTheMadness and #saveTheUS
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/marco-rubio-student-visas-revoked-ice-tufts-columbia-university/
Immigration and Nationality act **as amended (don't believe amended recently?)
**mayt be sent to countries other than of origin (paraphrase)
Stop the Coup!
The Project 2025 fascist masterminds want them gone.
So this is a priority over deporting poverty-wage undocumented immigrants working at farms & meat-packing plants in red states
Or at least egg prices don’t matter anymore as long as scary brown liberal people are kept away
How can that benefit the US?
It's one of the first institutions that fascists seek to bring under their thumb.
Next, removing any legal rights afforded women, rights to education, rights to remain independent will likely be forgotten.
Welcome to a new religious fundamentalist US
Cheaper to just bury them.
The fascists are just using it as an excuse to get rid of brown people they hate.
They don’t even explain what was apparently “found” AFTER the visa was approved in the first place ???!!
That is the most ridiculous shit.
Any and all of these people need to SUE this regime.
🤬🤬
However, they “claim” to be the regime of law and order.
That’s why these poor people being threatened, bullied and mistreated, need to get legal representation asap and sue.
It's a scare tactic.
https://www.jandehn.com/post/american-shitstorm-2-0
Imho there is no freedom of speech and things will be worse in the future.
Depending on how our elections next month turn out, it might get easier, but I wouldn't hold my breath
If you've got a spare $500k or $1m to spend, plenty of countries will happily offer you permanent residency or citizenship.
Undocumented immigrants paid $96.7 billion ( $8,889 per person) in federal, state, and local taxes in 2022. Most of that amount, $59.4 billion, was paid to the federal government while the remaining $37.3 billion was paid to state and local governments.
This is sickening. The current regime won't tolerate any criticism
Even US citizens aren't safe from exercising their 1st either.
https://www.reddit.com/r/legal/s/jMnyhXnL7J
They fucking knew what they were voting for.
It's giving 'Sadistic, sociopathic scumbag'.
Just - visas revoked?
Add another layer to the ‘USA is a bad faith and unreliable actor in the world’ pile.
Not sure that "built"
is the best verb.
Not an immigration lawyer, but doesn’t the definition of “deport” require being sent to a person’s country of origin?
https://www.reddit.com/r/immigration/comments/1jm7l4w/urgent_f1_status_suddenly_got_cancelled/?rdt=63080
anymore. Trump was voted in, the axe has fallen ..tbh, if I got this letter I would get out. Their life is not safe anymore in theUSA and any immigration lawyer will not be of any help if they are put on a flight to some God forsaken country
I said I was tired not sleeping, I’ve actually already finished work for today.
And that's without the hits from mass firings and tariffs.
It will take *decades* to rebuild their international rep, if they ever manage to at all.
Innovation in the US will just fall further and further behind.
And with all the health stuff being sabotaged on top of that... *shakes head sadly*
And brain drain??
If that's accurate, then US and a lot of others are already behind. But at least other countries will have a chance to catch up. US will struggle.
And if the Liberal Party (our RW conservatives) here in Australia win the election in May, Dutton has made it clear he's going to copy as much of Trump's ideology as he can.
I fear ICE will use this info to track down students before they leave and detain them
NO departure deadline stated in the email, which makes it easy for ICE to claim "S/he didn't leave fast enough" as their excuse for detaining
Probably would start thinking about how to illegally cross into Canada. Knowing I'd get arrested but at least they'd let me leave.
All of them deserve to be respected and to have free speech.
Is that the standard? Does that make it easier to read somehow? It seems like it would genuinely be the same - or is the alt text font better?
The First Amendment does not grant freedom to citizens only, it puts restrictions on all of government.
That's not deportation, that's human trafficking.
It was so bad and caused so many problems, immigration lost track of thousands.
Revolt.
She was marked by the Canary Mission because she hurt Israel’s feelings.
That is ultimately what is so terrifying. People getting grabbed off the street, no notice, no recourse, no habeus corpus...
Just thrown on a plane headed to a jail six countries away.
Laws are just words printed on paper. When the rule of law is strong, the words have power. When the gov't is hostile to the rule of law, then the words lack power, and we're left with just the paper to protect us.
Thank you.
The United States has a trade surplus in services, which includes international students attending our universities.
These actions will only increase our trade deficit.
The Unites States are breaking their international agreements and violating human rights.
And only Russia, China and North Korea will be left to deal with the US.
or as every hypocrite conservative rethuglican magat says, the free speech family values fiscally responsible...
Evil bad faith liars can not be interacted with. They are irredeemable.
And it's not as if they'd be likely to get another visa anyway having had one revoked previously.
It’s NOT the America I’ve known all my life!
Sketchy as hell.
I had a H-1B once, and later a green card.
I won't go anywhere near a US port of entry now. I would even try very hard to avoid routes where I could be diverted to one in an emergency.
"Remaining in the United States without a lawful immigration status can result in fines, detention, and/or deportation.
TOI
Open in App
It may also make you ineligible for a future
U.S. visa.”
Help me provide food for my family 😭
The war is back, famine is back, the crossings are closed, and prices are expensive.
The situation is tragic. Please donate to us. Help us secure food 💔😭
https://gofund.me/1223cfd4
We have a Fascist administration.
We do not have a
Fascist government.
🗽
A Fascist government would mean that there were Trumpists all the way down to the smallest village and library.
Opposition parties would have been outlawed.
🗽 🗳 🐢
"Use AI to revoke visas of foreign students who appear "pro-Hamas"
6th March Axios scoop:
1/🧵
State Dept: scanning social media of at least 14 million for "Catch and Revoke" initiative to cancel visas.
Broader surveillance: DHS has at least 12 overlapping programs of scanning social media of US citizens related to protests.
see Brennan Center backgrounder from 18th March:
2/🧵
#CatchAndRevoke
3/🧵
Especially by nuking everything to do with education and trying to make students memorize useless Christian bullshit instead of anything real.
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holy damn
I thought Trump had been banned from this?
2. Message to us *all* : if we can do it, you will experience consequences of protesting or disagreeing with us.
3. Fucking over these people's lives as a means to political power.
Where all all those 2nd Amendment folks when you need them? This is a tyrannical government. I think that's what the amendment was created to deal with.
Remember they need the country stupid.
“How can you claim you’re our savior
When those who oppose you
Are stepped on, or cut up, or simply disappear?”
🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
Private groups work to identify and report student protesters for possible deportation
It’s reality.
The concerns are valid.
leave now or you might find yourself in a slave prison in el salvador. that’s what the puppy killer made her propaganda pics for.
That is some deeply dystopian shit.
As a guy who swore an oath to the Constitution, I'm quoting you. "That is some deeply dystopian shit>"
Doesn't mean they won't try it though.
There's only one legal recourse which is impeachment and, well...
4.15.25-6.4.25 The DC Bar Assoc is holding their election for president. Pam Bondis brother is running against Diane Seltzer.
There's no way Bondis brother will hold them accountable.
https://www.dcbar.org/news-events/news/meet-president-elect-candidate-diane-seltzer?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2025-03-11_BB_Weekly_Newsletter&utm_term=Read+More&utm_id=1489332&sfmc_id=680220498
Rendition for protected speech.
It's true that unless it's followed by action to prevent this, it's a bit weak, but do not throw out the weapons you have.
They are absolutely obeying court orders, just not quietly.
That fact there’s precedent here doesn’t mean it’ll be applied automatically. But it can and will be challenged successfully in the courts.
Maddow came up with an acronym for it, “IOKIYAR” (It’s Ok If You’re A Republican”).
Texas is a wholly captured state.
But meanwhile, how fast can the blue states leave?
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/11/9/1595286/-Why-must-we-still-preserve-The-Union
Is this for real or a hoax?
For example:
AI is now helping decide which foreign students stay in the US — Hundreds receive emails telling them to self-deport
https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/ai-is-now-helping-decide-which-foreign-students-stay-in-the-us-hundreds-receive-emails-telling-them-to-self-deport/ar-AA1BTDkS
I'm following immigration lawyers in the U.S. that are following the district and circuit court decisions regarding deportations. No one is talking about or citing this. The language in this is oddly/weirdly specific.
The very same thing about which Rubio boasted two days ago that the United States revoked visas for 300 students.
The very same thing about which pro-Trump Washington Examiner boasted that WH is "revoking visas of pro-Hamas students each day".
You're missing the point.
The specifics listed in the Times of India is not the same as what is being reported in the United States. If students were really getting that, they would be posting it screenshots of it.
They aren't.
Just fuck all the way off bot.
Love,
An Israeli
going crazy trying to recall who 😭
But oh no their visa canceled boo hoo.
Maybe accept the results of your actions.
To this end >>
If you google Trump on campus protests, you can find he said this is exactly what he's going to do months before the elections.
they took a chance he won't get elected. they took a chance he won't keep his word about it.
they were wrong. deal with it.
Next- they’ll do same w Americans - born in the US..
Meta, Twitter, LinkedIn…
Vulnerable first, the rest of us next.
So if you think you can’t afford your children’s college now, wait until next year.
They either are rich/private school or most likely not looking at "higher education"
They are destroying higher education in America by removing the education from it.
Just afraid it won't lower the all important approval rating.
why come here to learn?
the point to bring it all down as vengeance
This administration is doing all it can to dumb the country down and undo all the work of the past few decades.
https://blockshopper.com/ca/los-angeles-county/cities/los-angeles/streets/hayvenhurst-dr?page=2&zip_id=91436
Educate your children (and yourself) to think critically, how to determine the truth, and what freedom from oppression means. You won’t have to worry then about what anyone says.
Note: critical thinking means knowing when you’re being fed bullshit for some hidden agenda.
“Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty, without Freedom of Speech.”-Ben Franklin
Authoritarianism is coming for people quickly
It does not hold any weight of law, so there is nothing for a court to rule on.
It can indicate the executive branch has acted with malice or prejudiced intent to violate rights, because the wrote down how they want to violate rights ahead of doing it.
So it’s difficult to get an injunction or restraint against such an activity- there is no legal ‘harm’ done by shredding these young peoples lives and ambitions.
It is also a method they could use to single out you or me for our political beliefs.
Our own government is waging war on the American people.
Where’s the retired old guard gop to protest ?
Live.
Your move, chief.
What's your excuse for that?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092753712300060X?casa_token=PpB3uDs8yX8AAAAA:GKjIRh0ubm0_xtJC7ayZ2j2OXThSmTR1rKoWP17JYH-uxGYq1u683kc6PO35xvPeindJq6hSP-6y
Hope they’re not banking on an influx of ‘home-grown’ students.
https://zeteo.com/p/ice-manually-revoking-university-students-residency-status-middle-east
In the meantime, hundreds or thousands of international students will be detained, arrested, and possibly deported.
What is the endgame here?
“It’s little Marco”.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/28/us/politics/trump-deportations-judge-order.html?smid=nytcore-android-share
Fuck this bullshit.
https://www.britannica.com/event/Boston-Tea-Party
They don't *get* chosen to be college presidents.
It will be homeless.
It will be LGBTQ people.
Eventually it will be people it labels as leftists.
Signal
Proton Mail
Shocking!
Oh wait...
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-end-immigration-program-cuban-republicans-florida-rcna197998
America has the faulty assumption that they exist in vaccum 😀
Blast off
It's party time
And we don't live in a fascist nation
Blast off
It's party time
And where the fuck are you?🎶
I don’t know how many foreign students attend blue-state universities as opposed to red-state ones, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if this policy was designed to decimate the student bodies of colleges in NY, CA, and MA specifically.
International students pay much high tuition rates. Kicking them out will mean US students will have to pay more.
A very clear threat that they might be disappeared into that El Salvadoran gulag.
Rules for thee, but not for me.
Different ranks, different spanks.
I don't know why I thought he might have a little bit of a soul or some decency left in there, but clearly not.
What did you like about Rubio's original approach to immigration? I saw in your bio you used to be gop so we may not agree on this point, but I'd love to hear about it.
It’s stand up now or never.
Am Yisrael Chai
Now they have to worry about mass shootings and random deportations.
We might visit net year.
I am really happy Canada takes a fierce position.
There's some lovely people in the US but they'll all be drowned out by the zionist backed 'patriots'