California State University System Weighs Dropping International Student English Test Requirement
The California State University System may let international applicants skip the TOEFL English test, with a Board of Trustees vote due in November.

The California State University System may let international applicants skip the TOEFL English test, with a Board of Trustees vote due in November.

During a portion of an interview aired on Monday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Ingraham Angle,” President Donald Trump defended having students from foreign countries, including China, in American universities by saying that “it’s good to have outside countries.”

Rep. Brittany Pettersen (D-CO) is complaining that President Donald Trump’s increased scrutiny of foreign nationals seeking temporary work visas is preventing Colorado ski resorts from importing foreign J-1 visa workers to fill American jobs.

Like two ships passing in the night, proponents and opponents of H1-B visas can’t see the forest through the trees. The void of American workers for qualified H‑1B positions was really caused by the ever-increasing scale and relaxed requirements of F‑1 student visas, and universities depending on international enrollment to balance budgets. Admissions at leading public institutions like Georgia Tech have become as competitive as elite private universities, yet a material share of limited undergraduate seats increasingly goes to non‑U.S. students who can pay full tuition and additional fees.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says the administration will admit 600,000 foreign students to help lower-tier colleges avoid bankruptcy, and will also upgrade the immigration process to favor higher-earning migrants.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “CNN NewsNight,” Atlantic Council Senior Fellow, former World Health Organization Adviser, and former NSC official during the Clinton administration Jamie Metzl stated that the overwhelming majority of Chinese students are great and the U.S. has to
President Donald Trump is suggesting that Harvard University cap the number of foreign students it accepts annually to make room for Americans who want to attend the prestigious Ivy League school.

Three billion dollars in grant money previously destined for scientific and engineering research at elite Harvard University is being considered by President Donald Trump for redirection to trade schools.

President Donald Trump evoked more political leverage Sunday in his effort to reign in alleged antisemitism and racial favoritism at Harvard by arguing U.S. taxpayers fund the education of its foreign students.

The federal government has blocked Harvard University’s ability to welcome foreign students as the university resists President Donald Trump’s policy of ending racial favoritism in government-funded schools.

In the first 100 days of President Donald Trump’s second term, the State Department revoked the visas of 4,000 foreign students, 90 percent of whom have criminal records.

A pair of lawsuits are reportedly accusing President Donald Trump’s administration of “unlawfully” revoking a large number of foreign students’ visas.

During a town hall on CNN on Wednesday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said that “We don’t have to hate China.” And if we don’t figure out how to cooperate “globally, climate change is going to destroy this planet.” He also

Students participating in Pro-Hamas demonstrations on college campuses who are non-immigrant visa holders have been put on notice that they will face deportation by the Trump administration. Firming up a similar message from President Donald Trump, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose department issues the visas required to study in the United States, made clear that foreign students who support terrorist organizations will face severe consequences.

Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau admitted amid his shrinking approval in the polls that the Canadian government had made “mistakes” regarding its pro-migration policy.

UK education agents are advertising university slots for students with promises of being able to bring family members to the country.

Many African students who have fled Ukraine say they have no desire to return to their home countries but rather stay wish to stay in Europe.

The number of foreign-born pupils in Italian schools is on the rise, with at least 880 schools across the country now having more foreign-born pupils and native Italians.

Three career academic math scholars gave a stern warning about the “deplorable” state of K-12 math education in the United States as schools prioritize social justice and diversity over merit, thereby allowing China to successfully advance as the world’s leader in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

President Joe Biden has thrown out a reform sought by former President Trump that would have brought more federal oversight to foreign nationals in the United States on student visas.

The Boris Johnson administration’s supposedly tough new “points-based immigration system” will make it even easier for foreign students to stay in Britain as unskilled workers, Home Secretary Priti Patel has boasted.

Hundreds of thousands of foreign students taking online-only courses in the fall semester will be given F-1 student visas, thanks to the help of big tech CEOs and their lobbying on behalf of their own economic interests.

A group of 15 House Republicans lobbied President Trump’s administration to reopen a loophole that gives visas to online-only foreign students just as the White House reversed policy to do just that.

A handful of House Republicans are lobbying to reopen a loophole allowing foreign students to stay in the United States for taking online courses at colleges and universities, Breitbart News has learned.

The United States Chamber of Commerce is demanding the federal government provide visas to foreign students taking online courses at American colleges and universities.

Students and faculty at both UC Berkeley and Johns Hopkins University are working on plans that will counter recently published ICE guidelines that require foreign students to return to their home country if they are enrolled in online courses this fall.

About 72,000 United States-born children delivered every year to foreign tourists, foreign visa workers, and foreign students are rewarded birthright American citizenship, a new study reveals.

An immigration expert said a government program encourages U.S. employers to hire foreign-born college grads over U.S. citizen graduates.

The federal government used a fake university to bust labor traffickers who funneled at least 600 Indian workers into college graduate jobs around the United States, the Detroit News reported.

A professor at Duke University has stepped down from an administrative role after an email in which she asked Chinese students to speak English went viral online.

Tens of thousands more foreign students will be allowed into the UK without having to prove they have the right qualifications or can even speak English, as the new Home Secretary continues to relax visa rules.

A report from an immigration think tank reveals that “fourth-rate purveyors of higher education” are using immigration law to make millions of dollars while tens of thousands of aliens get student visas and work permits from “visa mills.”

A member of a libertarian think tank, the Cato Institute, is blasting the prospect of President Trump soon enacting “extreme vetting” procedures for foreign nationals seeking entry.

President Donald Trump is following through on his promise to implement “extreme vetting” of foreign nationals seeking entry to the United States via Green Cards and the refugee resettlement program.

Foreign nationals attempting to enter the United States through various visa programs will now have to prove they have the means return to their native countries as federal law mandates.

The House of Lords wants to remove students from the migration statistics, but hundreds of thousands are settling permanently after their studies.

Almost 630,000 foreign nationals overstayed their visas and Green Cards in Fiscal Year 2016.

A new report for the Student Exchange Visitors Program (SEVP) generated by the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) shows that of the 1.18 million students from foreign countries studying at colleges and universities in the United States 77 percent are from Asia.

A leading British university has put signs in their toilets, “designed for international students”, pleading with them not to stand or squat on the loos or leave their business on the floor. The signs appear on the University of Sheffield’s

In contrast to the growing number of foreigners coming to the United States to attend college, a review of federal data finds that Americans are studying abroad at a lower rate.
