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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick Profile picture
@ReichlinMelnick
Sep 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read • Read on X
Another major change to the legal immigration system; the Trump administration wants to eliminate "duration of status" visas for international students, exchange visitors, and international media.

Students would be limited to visas that last 2-4 years, with extensions allowed.
Under DHS's proposal, it seems that international journalists on assignment in the US would be effectively prohibited from remaining for long periods of time.

The proposal would limit their visas to at most 240 days, and require them to file for Extension of Statuses after that.
New restrictions on student visas would also be imposed by the rule, including limiting language training students to a maximum 24-month period of stay, requiring students to leave the U.S. more quickly after their visa expires, and setting a limit on changing educational levels.
Importantly, under the new rule international students would receive automatic six-month extensions of their status once they filed for an extension, which would in times when @USCIS was actually functional ensure that people would get an answer before their status expired.
Here's the full list of changes DHS says the rule would make for international media.

I don't know much about "I" visas, so I don't know how many foreign journalists use them to remain in the US for long periods of time. But these changes seem designed to make that impossible.
Here's another good thread going over some of the more fine details of the rule, from someone with significantly more experience in these types of visas than me.
Importantly, @doug_rand notes that the new proposed rule would effectively impose racist nationality-based limitations on some foreign students, declaring people security threats purely based on the place they were born and the nationality they posses.
Probably the biggest change in the rule would be a ban on student visas longer than 2 years for any person born in, or a citizen of, a country with a student visa overstay rate over 10%—meaning no bachelor/grad degrees.

As I show, that bans most of Africa

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Aug 12
Trump's people at DHS are referencing here "Which Way, Western Man," a book by white supremacist William Gayley Simpson that was published by an American Neo-Nazi organization, the National Alliance.

In the book, Simpson argued that Hitler was right and Jews must be killed. Image
To be blunt; the propagandists running @DHSgov are deliberately pushing thinly-veiled neo-Nazi material through the official communications channels of the U.S. government. Their goal is stirring outrage (to which they will express fake outrage) and signaling to their followers.
@DHSgov Calling it now, @DHSgov is going to post a recruitment ad entitled “Our Struggle,” and will call you a lunatic if you even dare to suggest that’s a reference to Mein Kampf (“My Struggle”), even though it obviously will be.
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Aug 4
UPDATE: Remember this Venezuelan guy who was imprisoned in El Salvador without trial because some numbskull at @DHSgov thought his Real Madrid tattoo was a gang tattoo?

He's free now, and he confirms that the people the Trump admin paid El Salvador to imprison were all tortured. Image
Jerce Reyes Barrios is a soccer player who entered the U.S. legally in September 2024 to seek asylum. A CBP officer at the time made the clearly false accusation that his tattoo made him a gang member, so he was detained.

That was bad enough — but Trump escalated it to torture. Image
Thanks to the Trump admin, Mr. Reyes Barrios was imprisoned without trial for four months in El Salvador, where he was beaten and abused repeatedly by guards.

He has no criminal record, entered legally, and the only allegations of gang membership were a tattoo and a "hand sign." Image
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Jul 23
ALSO NEW: A federal judge in Tennessee just granted Abrego Garcia release on bond with conditions, finding that the DOJ did NOT meet its burden to prove that Mr. Abrego Garcia was a flight risk or such a danger to the community that release must be denied even with conditions. Image
Judge Crenshaw in Tennessee finds that the government has failed to meet its burden to prove that Mr. Abrego Garcia is so dangerous that no conditions could justify his release, and therefore upholds the magistrate judge's decision granting release on bond with conditions. Image
Judge Crenshaw on the allegations of MS-13 membership:

"[F]or the court to find that Abrego is a member of or in affiliation with MS-13, it would have to make so many inferences from the Government's proffered evidence in its favor that such conclusion would border on fanciful." Image
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Jul 22
AWFUL scenario. Border Patrol agents raided a car wash and arrested a DACA recipient working there. He has a REAL ID, but they didn't even let him show his ID, they just grabbed him and threw him in a van.

He was then detained for a MONTH before getting bond. Image
It's literally in the first paragraph of the excerpt: no.
He's not. In fact, the article suggests that he still has has DACA status, despite a month in detention, and remains protected from deportation.
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Jul 19
CRAZY story. An 82-year-old from Chile lost his green card. In June, he went to pick up a new one from @USCIS. While there, he was handcuffed and detained by ICE.

An unknown caller then told family she could help, then later said he’d died. But now he’s turned up in Guatemala! Image
This story raises a TON of questions for @DHSgov:

- Why was this lawful permanent resident detained when picking up a replacement green card? He has no criminal record.
- Why was he not in the ICE detainee locator system?
- How did he end up in Guatemala?
- Who called family? Image
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@DHSgov The mysterious caller undoubtedly does raise some red flags about a hoax, but there are a couple important key difference:

- He was detained by officials at a government office and his wife saw it happen.
- He turned up in another country, so there has to be a record of how.
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Jul 19
Andry Hernández Romero, the innocent make-up artist imprisoned without trial for 4 months in El Salvador by the Trump admin, is FREE.

He was wrongfully accused of being a gang member because of his “mom” and “dad” tattoos, and illegally sent to El Salvador without due process. Image
Maduro has indicated that the men will not be immediately detained.

This story has been a major public relations talking point for his government. They are saying that they “rescued” the men in CECOT, so for now they’ll all have public relations on their side.
As a reminder, Andry was never ordered deported. He was detained at a port of entry in late 2024 by CBP b/c of his tattoos.

He had a pending asylum hearing in his immigration court case. Before that happened, Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act and imprisoned him in El Salvador.
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