Colleges Warn Foreign Students Of Trump Travel Bans

The New York Times reports:

With students at many colleges wrapping up final exams this week and preparing for their winter break, a number of schools, including Harvard, U.S.C. and Cornell, are advising their international students to return to campus before President-elect Donald J. Trump is inaugurated on Jan. 20.

“A travel ban is likely to go into effect soon after inauguration,” Cornell’s Office of Global Learning warned students on its website late last month, advising them to be back in the United States before the start of spring-semester classes on Jan. 21.

More than 1.1 million students from outside the United States were enrolled in American colleges and universities in the 2023-24 academic year, according to Open Doors, a data project partially funded by the U.S. State Department.

Read the full article. Colleges say they expect Trump to follow through on his vow of travel bans from Muslim-majority countries. They also warn students that bans for China, India, and a dozen other countries could be enacted. Around half of all foreign students come from China and India.

This is sobering.

USC is advising foreign students to return to campus from winter break before Trump takes office. pic.twitter.com/ueEcvuerIa

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