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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Fri Jan 31, 2020, 02:28 PM Jan 2020

More Iranian students are being deported at US airports, advocates say

They left Iran with valid visas in hand. But hours after landing in the US, they were forced to turn back on flights they never expected to take.

From Massachusetts to Michigan, reports are on the rise of authorities detaining and deporting Iranian students at US airports. A 27-year-old engineer who'd planned to get a doctorate at Michigan State University was deported from Detroit Metro Airport on Monday. A week earlier, a 24-year-old Northeastern University student was escorted onto a plane in Boston as protesters at the airport pushed for his release.

For the students, it's devastating. For immigrant rights advocates, it's a troubling pattern emerging as tensions run high between the US and Iran. And for American universities hoping to convince the world's top students to study in their classrooms, it's causing concern -- even though the overall number of cases is still relatively small.

"Campuses are much more worried about what happens at the port of entry than they used to be ... because it is so unpredictable and so apparently random," says Terry Hartle, senior vice president of the American Council on Education, which represents about 1,800 colleges and universities. "It used to be that you would breathe a sigh of a relief when your international student got their visa. Now you breathe a sigh of relief when they get to campus."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/more-iranian-students-are-being-deported-at-us-airports-advocates-say/ar-BBZw5Ek?li=BBnbcA1

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"Fuck the Furriners. 'Merkan universities COLGATE4 Jan 2020 #1

COLGATE4

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1. "Fuck the Furriners. 'Merkan universities
Fri Jan 31, 2020, 02:49 PM
Jan 2020

for 'Merkan students!"

So say the Trumpites as they give the middle finger to the rest of the world.

Assholes

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