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.

  • anomnom@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    What about if they invade your space, and take your tables?

    It’s stupid to pick a fight you can’t win until you have no other choice. We had fights we could have won 4 years ago, but the Democrats (specifically Garland & Biden) fucked up and didn’t fight them.

    The opposition are protesting and burning Teslas, and probably should as long as they can get away with it, since it takes away some of the head Nazi’s financial power. Right now, they can win small fights like that, but it could easily lead to more arrests and disenfranchising of leftist voters (if not worse, if the MAGATs are allowed to call it terrorism).

    It makes little sense for opposition to just start improbable fights with MAGA when they’re in the position to be crushed by all three branches of government and the police forces by and large. Either the odds need to improve, or all other options need to vanish.