US EditionTrump's Student Visa Crackdown Could Be a Boon for China
- U.S. District Judge William Young ruled on July 7, 2025, in Boston that a lawsuit alleging the Trump administration retaliated against foreign student protesters will proceed to trial.
- The lawsuit, backed by academic groups including the Knight First Amendment Institute and AAUP chapters, challenges use of immigration powers amid campus unrest over the Gaza war.
- High-Profile plaintiffs include Turkish doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk, arrested days after a pro-Palestinian op-ed, and Columbia’s Mohsen Mahdawi, detained during a citizenship interview and accused of supporting antisemitic violence.
- The Trump administration invoked 8 U.S.C. 1227 to remove noncitizens for acting against U.S. Foreign policy, with Secretary Marco Rubio threatening aggressive visa revocations for Chinese students among 1.1 million international students contributing $44 billion.
- The paused visa interviews have created uncertainty for universities and students, raising concerns about recruitment, financial impacts, and chilling academic freedom and political expression.
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The restrictions on visas announced by the White House particularly affect Chinese students, who in the United States today are as many as 277 thousand. But their number had already decreased in recent years, with the growth of alternatives in Asian universities, especially in Japan, South Korea and Singapore. While Chinese universities climb the rankings in technological disciplines but do not limit their freedom of thought in humanities discip…
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The Trump administration must face a trial next month over allegations that it used immigration powers to retaliate against foreign student protesters in a case that could test the outer bounds of constitutional protections for noncitizens involved in anti-Israel activism.…
Where will international students go if not the US?
As the Trump administration broadens its crackdown on international students, those students and their families are looking abroad to complete their education. The world's young scholars are seeking alternatives to U.S. colleges and universities.Foreign students are "in chaos" as the White House threatens their American education, said The Hill. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in late May that the administration had paused new student visas,…
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