Hundreds of international students in the US are getting an email from the US Department of State (DOS) asking them to self-deport owing to campus activism. Immigration attorneys’ contacted by TOI affirmed this development and added a few Indian students may also be at the receiving end of such emails – for something as innocuous as sharing a social media post.
It is not just international students who physically participated in campus activism but also those who shared or liked ‘anti-national’ posts that are the target of these emails, said an immigration attorney.
This crackdown is based on social-media reviews being conducted by DOS (which includes Consulate officials). Thus, even new student applications be it for an F (academic study visa), M (vocational study visa) or J (exchange visa) will also come under such social media scrutiny.
Applicants will be denied the opportunity to study in the US.
Shiggles, the way you said this makes it sound like you’re calling every American in America a nazi. I doubt whether you intended this, but that is the reading people are responding to.
They are responding to a heinously stupid stance. I hope and trust you will see this.
I am an American who has been boycotting America as an immigrant elsewhere for the last 4 years. I had the understanding, privilege, and nerve to know all of this was coming down the pipe and to act accordingly.
Most Americans are not Nazis. The electoral system is not only systematically, but also in specific regulatory and monetary senses, skewed in the direction of Nazis. This has been an issue arguably since the Powell Memo half a century ago, but the roots of this poison go back all the way to before the country was an official entity.
I would love to be proven wrong, and to be just another overreacting fool.
Hasn’t happened yet.
You do not recant? If my testimony cannot move you, it is doubtful that you yearn to accept a contradiction, though it pleases you to pretend it.
I have forsaken a friend of over twenty years on these issues. I have made myself and my family immigrants among the English, all because I have known for years that America was fated for fascism. Still I do not say all Americans are Nazis.
If you brainlessly admit no nuance into the matter, why say anything at all? Better to remain silent and sneer at those less fortunate, like a fucking nazi.