Grad Students being disappeared by ICE, Visas repealed by Rubio

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U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Chinese Students, Rubio Says​

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”


“Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday evening that the Trump administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.”

He added that the State Department was revising visa criteria to “enhance scrutiny” of all future applications from China, including Hong Kong.

The move was certain to send ripples of anxiety across university campuses in the United States and was likely to lead to reprisal from China, the country of origin for the second-largest group of international students in the United States.…”
 
nycfan said:

U.S. Will ‘Aggressively’ Revoke Visas of Chinese Students, Rubio Says​

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the students who will have their visas canceled include people with ties to the Chinese Communist Party and those studying in “critical fields.”


“Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Wednesday evening that the Trump administration would work to “aggressively revoke” visas of Chinese students, including those with ties to the Chinese Communist Party or who are studying in “critical fields.”

He added that the State Department was revising visa criteria to “enhance scrutiny” of all future applications from China, including Hong Kong.

The move was certain to send ripples of anxiety across university campuses in the United States and was likely to lead to reprisal from China, the country of origin for the second-largest group of international students in the United States.…”
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“… A report published last year by the State Department and the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit group, said that China had the second-largest share of the more than 1.1 million international students who enrolled in American higher education institutions in the 2023-24 term. More than 277,000 students came from China, behind India, with its more than 331,000 students. The number of Chinese students had dropped 4 percent from the previous academic year, while the number from India had surged by 23 percent.…”
 
CRHeel94 said:
My son is a math and computer science major. He said 90% of his fellow students in math were from India or China.
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Actual Indian/Chinese citizens or Americans from Indian and Chinese backgrounds? The latter is easy to believe, the first would be a surprise, at least for undergrads.
 
BlooVooDoo said:
Actual Indian/Chinese citizens or Americans from Indian and Chinese backgrounds? The latter is easy to believe, the first would be a surprise, at least for undergrads.
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Yeah, I'm incredibly skeptical of that number. No offense to CR or his son, but that number strikes me as some combination of:

1. Exaggeration
2. Confusion of foreign nationals and domestic minorities
3. Maybe there's some qualifier that didn't make it through the game of telephone.

My son is studying computer engineering and it's nowhere near 90% foreign. Even counting Asian-Americans, it's probably less than half. I saw the photo of his rocket-building team after they hotfired their engine in the desert -- it was pretty mottled. Plenty of white to go with the darker hues.
 
BlooVooDoo said:
Actual Indian/Chinese citizens or Americans from Indian and Chinese backgrounds? The latter is easy to believe, the first would be a surprise, at least for undergrads.
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He may have been exaggerating or I might be mis-remembering...this was back when he thought he was on the math PhD track.

1) It was graduate level classes in math.
2) Believe he said that most of the Chinese were straight from China, but included some Asian Americans.
3) The Indians were half and half.

He said that in Comp Sci things were way different.
 
CRHeel94 said:
He may have been exaggerating or I might be mis-remembering...this was back when he thought he was on the math PhD track.

1) It was graduate level classes in math.
2) Believe he said that most of the Chinese were straight from China, but included some Asian Americans.
3) The Indians were half and half.

He said that in Comp Sci things were way different.
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All right. I can't speak to math. A long time ago I was taking a German class in grad school and the math phDs were taking it also for requirements, and most of them were white. A lot of Europeans (mostly Eastern). But that was one class 30 years ago. I've no visibility since
 
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