Will Trump Take On Misuse of Student Visas?
While the title of this article sounds ominous, the focus of the article is on visa overstays, fake students, and Day 1 CPT. When it comes to visa overstays, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security has openly admitted their data is flawed, and the article does stress that the percentage of overstays is minor relative to the number of students in the US. The issue of misuse of the student visa by fake students and Day 1 CPT are the bigger issues in this article. Our team will be monitoring the administration’s moves closely and will welcome improvements to policies that make it easier for genuine students to study and work post-graduation in the US.
But this second time around, there’s a lot more at stake. With the U.S. hosting a record-high 1.126 million students from abroad—largely due to growth in graduate students rather than new undergraduates—Trump’s expected crackdown might expose a dirty little secret: widespread misuse of student visas.
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Elon Musk and the Tech Titans v the Rest of MAGA – Here’s Where the Big Splits Could Happen
Trying to figure out what to expect from the incoming Trump administration is not easy. We know that he has dozens of executive orders to sign on Day 1, which most likely will include another travel ban. What exactly the ban and other orders will include, no one knows. If you watched the news over the holidays, you heard the fight over H-1B visas with the tech side of the Trump coalition fighting in favor and the anti-immigration side of the coalition fighting to end the visa entry program. This article does a good job of breaking down the fight within the Trump coalition and how the sides are divided. Our team is following all of this closely and working with our own coalition partners to strategize how best to work with the Trump administration and the new Congress.
The controversy isn’t just an ideological clash between right-wing nativists, who view immigrants as threats to US jobs and culture, and big tech titans eager to expand their access to global talent. Instead, it’s a fight for power over the future direction of Trumpism.
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Perspective: The Enduring Value of Public Higher Education
In the midst of the bloodshed of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln made two large investments in the country’s future. With southern senators no longer able to block key pieces of domestic legislation, in 1862 Congress passed the Pacific Railroad Act — establishing the northern route that would finally see its completion at Promontory Point, Utah — and also the Morrill Land Grant College Act.
