Under DHS's new proposed rule, if you were born in, or are a citizen of, one of the countries on this map, you would be banned from getting a four-year degree in the United States, with a student visa limited to two years maximum.
Here's the best example I can give for why collective punishment based on visa overstay rates is arbitrary and cruel.
In 2019, six students from Tuvalu were supposed to leave the US. One didn't.
As a result, the visa overstay rate was 17%—meaning all Tuvalans would be punished.
Also, whoops, just realizing I forgot to add Chad to the map. Chad would also be subject to the ban, because they had a student visa/exchange visitor overstay rate over 10% in FY2019.
That completes the band across the middle of Africa.
One final thing to add to this thread; that things are not totally lost if the rule goes into effect.
Students in those situation would be able to ask DHS for an extension of their visas past two years. So that means it's not a total ban.
But those extensions aren't guaranteed.
Putting this here: I maybe should not have used the word "ban." Some people would still be able to get a four-year degree, but would be required to apply to extend their visas repeatedly through their time in college—extensions which aren't guaranteed.
This makes NO SENSE. A 13-year-old was arrested by local police for unknown reasons, and then turned over to ICE, which is detaining him far away from his mother — who is going through immigration court, has an asylum application on file, and is legally authorized to work.
Important context from @TriciaOhio that I'm posting in the interest of fairness. I do not automatically trust it given that she has made multiple inaccurate claims in the past (including even yesterday). IF true, it would at least provide an explanation.
@TriciaOhio To be clear, absolutely none of that information is included in public reporting on this story and the Everett Police Department did not give any statement to the Boston Globe about the initial arrest. Tricia is the the first person to ever give this info.
UPDATE: Judge Perry’s opinion blocking the Texas National Guard deployment in Chicago is out!
She begins with Alexander Hamilton’s rejection of a “preposterous” idea that the Constitution lets a President deploy a State’s militia to a different State for political retribution.
Judge Perry spends four pages going over the history of the debates around the Constitution as to the proper relationship of the President to a state militia, especially after overthrowing the British, who had maintained standing armies in the colonies against their wishes.
The Trump admin says Trump is authorized to deploy the Texas National Guard to Chicago under the specific law below. They say there is:
- (2) a rebellion or danger of a rebellion against the authority of US
- (3) the President is “unable with regular forces to execute the laws.”
Stephen Miller has now declared this Trump-appointed judge an insurrectionist.
To emphasize, the judge painstakingly examined all the protest happening in Portland before Trump activated the Guard. She noted that there hadn't been any violence at a protest since mid-July.
Here's how Judge Immergut summarized the last two and a half months of protests at the ICE facility in Portland; they "generally were limited to fewer than 30 people and were 'largely sedate.'"
Stephen Miller's efforts to claim insurrection in this decision is pure propaganda.
Here are the FOUR incidents the Trump admin said justified federalizing the Guard.
- Some protesters displayed a makeshift guillotine.
- A picture of an unmarked ICE vehicle was posted online.
- Protesters twice shined high-power flashlights at ICE officers' faces.
In this raid, they dragged naked children out of their homes and put them into U-Haul vans. And now they're bragging about it.
U.S. citizens had their doors smashed down and were forced into handcuffs and held outside for hours. Senior citizens held outside, their homes trashed.
It was 37 people in the raid highlighted in the video posted by @DHSGov. The 900 number is for the entire Chicago operation over the last couple weeks.
Provide a single piece of evidence that anything I posted above is wrong. One.
Am I lying that Emergency Medicaid (1986) and Cuban/Haitian Entrant Assistance (1980) are not "Biden-era"? Am I making it up that the OBBBA doesn't eliminate either?
So in response to my entirely correct statement that Vance is not telling the truth (in multiple respects) about what the Democrats are demanding in the shutdown, you bring up a completely unrelated issue that is not impacted by the shutdown debate at all?
🚨A dangerous moment for America. If the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run checks — they would be sued into oblivion. It's beyond unconstitutional. Yet DHS is laughing about it!
🚨What @DHSGov pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is insanely unconstitutional. They raided an apartment building, smashed down every door and dragged entire families into the street, and detained everyone for hours ("Kavanaugh stops").
One U.S. citizen was held for FIVE HOURS.
@DHSgov 🚨Another U.S. citizen, a senior citizen, had his door smashed in and was dragged out of his apartment in zip ties. He was detained for THREE HOURS. No one at ICE or DHS ever showed him a warrant for anything.