The Trump administration dropped its policy that would have forced international students to leave the U.S. if all of their classes were online this fall.
Students had been facing the threat of being deported if they didn't take in-person classes during a pandemic...
Students had been facing the threat of being deported if they didn't take in-person classes during a pandemic...
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00:00The border is back home for me.
00:01They are closed.
00:02I cannot travel back home.
00:04So if they were to deport me,
00:06I don't know where I would go.
00:08They're wanting us to leave the country and go back home,
00:10but they still want us to pay our tuition
00:13and still want us to pay for online classes.
00:16Am I going to have to go back to a country
00:18that I don't even live in,
00:19that I don't have a place to go to?
00:30Given the whole pandemic
00:44and having to travel long hours,
00:47risking infections,
00:48risking infecting my parents,
00:50I would be studying at like midnight or like 1 a.m.
00:55And I don't know how all of that was going to work.
00:57And then I feel like my whole future is uncertain now.
01:02We as international students,
01:03we pay the most tuition here.
01:06We bring diversity to the college campuses.
01:09We do so much for the U.S.
01:11and this is just like telling us to leave.
01:15It's like, get out of our country.
01:17That's what it's saying.
01:18And it seems racist to me.
01:21This law is just,
01:23it's an utter disgrace to society.
01:26It's an actual embarrassment to the U.S.
01:29So I'm actually originally from Mexico,
01:32but I moved to the United States
01:33when I was two years old.
01:35And I'm not used to the visa, the F1,
01:39because I used to be on an E2 visa.
01:40That's a working visa that my dad had.
01:42So I'm over here so stressed out.
01:44I'm like, what do I do?
01:46I think it's a very conscious effort
01:48to try to make the U.S. less friendly
01:51to international students.
01:52And I also think that it is intentionally meant
01:55to try to encourage,
01:59force even universities
02:01to keep doing in-person classes,
02:03even if they would think
02:05that it's safer to be teaching online
02:08in the coming year.
02:17We have to open our schools,
02:20open our schools.
02:22Stop this nonsense.
02:33The more hurdles you put in front of people
02:36who want to come to the U.S. and want to study
02:39and who bring a ton to the country,
02:43the fewer students who are going to be willing
02:46to do that in the future.
02:47I mean, most people probably know
02:49that a very large fraction
02:50of Silicon Valley startups
02:52are founded by immigrants.
02:55There are a lot of fields
02:57in the STEM areas
02:59that at the graduate level
03:00are made up mostly of international students
03:03and that would just be decimated as fields.
03:20I feel like they're really honestly
03:22just used to get money out of them
03:24because of the overpriced prices
03:27that we have to pay.
03:28And I'm here because I want to
03:32have a better career,
03:33have a better future.
03:34And I'm here for better opportunities,
03:37not to like take away jobs from other people
03:40or put other people on harm
03:42or anything like that.
03:43And they say America is a free country.
03:45So where is the free country?
03:47So where is the freedom there?