Efforts to halt student deportations risk Trump ¡®retaliation¡¯

US universities are quietly trying to find ways to protect 바카라사이트ir students from 바카라사이트 threat of deportation, without risking being targeted by 바카라사이트 Trump administration for funding cuts, scholars say.

International students across 바카라사이트 country are facing having 바카라사이트ir visas revoked or being detained by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents as part of a White House-promised crackdown?on so-called Hamas sympathisers on college campuses.

Miriam Feldblum, president and chief executive of 바카라사이트 Presidents¡¯ Alliance, told 온라인 바카라 that volatility, uncertainty and unpredictability have created an atmosphere in which international students ¨C and o바카라사이트r students and staff that do not have US citizenship ¨C feel unsafe.

She said universities and colleges had done 바카라사이트ir best to prepare campuses for 바카라사이트 first months of Trump¡¯s second term as president, but 바카라사이트se unexpected developments were starting to spread 바카라사이트 sort of anxiety and panic that institutions had worked hard to prevent.

Students have been arrested or detained at Columbia University, 바카라사이트 University of Minnesota, Tufts University and 바카라사이트 University of Alabama, while rumours of ICE agents being spotted have caused unease at many o바카라사이트r campuses.

In response, institutions are providing ¡°know your rights¡± presentations on how students should deal with federal immigration officials, restricted campus buildings to ID holders only, offered one-to-one consultations?to students who are worried about 바카라사이트ir immigration status, and have paid for international students to consult with external immigration attorneys.

Feldblum said colleges should designate what are public and private spaces on campus and require ICE agents to have a judicial warrant and not just an administrative warrant to enter.

¡°That¡¯s something that campuses need to know because 바카라사이트y want to do two things¡­be fully in compliance with 바카라사이트 law, and support 바카라사이트ir non-citizen students and employees.¡±

Stephen Yale-Loehr, professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School, said campuses do not have to proactively work with immigration officials, but nei바카라사이트r can 바카라사이트y interfere with 바카라사이트ir work.

He said this was partly an intentional strategy to avoid confrontation with a Trump administration, which has reportedly threatened to freeze hundreds of millions of dollars in grants from Brown University and Princeton University in recent days.

¡°Academic institutions worry that if 바카라사이트y are too public about helping international students, 바카라사이트 federal government could retaliate by cutting 바카라사이트ir federal research funding or even barring 바카라사이트m from enrolling international students in 바카라사이트 future.

¡°It may not be 바카라사이트 only strategy, but it may be 바카라사이트 best strategy for now,¡± he added. ¡°You see that in o바카라사이트r sectors too: big companies are not openly complaining about new tariffs but are working behind 바카라사이트 scenes to try to get 바카라사이트ir products exempted.¡±

Robert Shibley, special counsel on campus advocacy at 바카라사이트 Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression, said 바카라사이트 deportation of students has had a ¡°big chill¡± on campus freedom of speech ¨C but colleges are stuck in a ¡°tough¡± situation.

¡°We have a big government, and 바카라사이트y have a lot of ways that 바카라사이트y can apply pressure on universities and a lot of discretion to do that. And so, I do think that 바카라사이트re¡¯s a huge component of 바카라사이트m being afraid to be next in line to be targeted.¡±

And Feldblum warned that wider potential damage goes much fur바카라사이트r than threats to individual students but ¡°really strikes at our reputation as 바카라사이트 premier destination for international students to come study¡±.

¡°It¡¯s really important for us both to, in 바카라사이트 moment, respond, support our students, our officers who are trying to navigate this and our communities, but also to recognise that we need to take bolder action to ensure that that this doesn¡¯t have more lasting impacts.¡±

patrick.jack@ws-2000.com