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.
President Trump is receiving praise from the Chamber of Commerce and the Koch brothers’ network of billionaire organizations — critics of his economic nationalist agenda — after reopening a loophole that will give visas to foreign students taking online classes.
White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany says students should consider suing Harvard University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) for charging students full tuition while offering mostly online courses for the Fall 2020 semester.
Harvard President Larry Bacow condemned the guidelines issued by ICE on Monday declaring that foreign students on visas enrolled in online courses at American universities will be asked to leave the country. All Harvard classes will be online in the upcoming academic year.
Legislation filed by Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) would end China’s pipeline of foreign students to fill spots at American universities and take American STEM jobs.
China remains the single largest beneficiary of the United States’ various student visa programs — sending more of its young nationals to the U.S. every year than Europe and Africa combined.
An open borders lobbying group, partially funded by billionaire George Soros, says “we need to abolish” the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency to protect foreign nationals accused of visa fraud.
