CJN: Trump Admin's New Visa Rule Could Squeeze Out Anti-Israel Student Activists
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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s new rule limiting how long foreign students can stay on visas could make it more difficult for some anti-Israel activists to remain in the country indefinitely, experts told JNS.
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Mark Goldfeder, director of the National Jewish Advocacy Center, told JNS that under the “duration of status” system, “a foreign student was vetted exactly once, and then never again, sometimes for a decade.” “We have spent the last few years watching what unexamined, open-ended status can produce on a quad,” he said. “This rule restores the unremarkable principle that a guest’s visa gets reviewed by the government that issued it, on a schedule.” “The overwhelming majority of international students are exactly what they say they are, and a student who comes here to study will graduate inside four years without ever noticing this rule exists,” Goldfeder added. “But the perpetual activist on his seventh year of loosely defined coursework will notice it, and that is rather the point.”
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