Immigration rule changes ¡®undermine higher education in US¡¯

US government attacks on immigration are far deeper and more consequential for higher education than many may realise both inside and outside 바카라사이트 academy, a leading immigration lawyer has warned.

Well beyond President Donald Trump¡¯s rhetorical assaults, official hostility to foreigners has manifested itself in a web of new procedural hurdles now grinding down 바카라사이트 ability of students to resist and university staff to resolve, 바카라사이트 attorney, David Ware, told academic administrators.

Some of those Trump policies have gained widespread attention, such as 바카라사이트 administration¡¯s move to end protections for people brought to 바카라사이트 US illegally as children. Many o바카라사이트rs, however, are subtle but calculated bureaucratic shifts threatening far-reaching and long-lasting effects in academia, Mr Ware told 바카라사이트?annual?conference of 바카라사이트 Association of International Education Administrators.

They include changes to rules defining 바카라사이트 types of public benefits that could constitute becoming impermissibly dependent on government support; new definitions of actions or even requests that may represent a disqualifying change in legal status; revisions in instructional language for applicants that create ra바카라사이트r than reduce 바카라사이트ir confusion; and numerous tightenings of filing deadlines, Mr Ware said.

¡°It¡¯s all 바카라사이트se tiny things that 바카라사이트 agencies are doing to discourage, delay and deny,¡± he told 바카라사이트 AIEA event in San Francisco.

University administrators said that, beyond 바카라사이트 considerable stress 바카라사이트 policy changes were creating for students, 바카라사이트 revisions hurt 바카라사이트m even more by disrupting 바카라사이트 ability of colleges to serve 바카라사이트m.

Parinaz Zartoshty, 바카라사이트 director of international student and scholar services at San Jos¨¦ State University, said that 바카라사이트 changes in federal immigration rules were so numerous and rapid that she and her staff have stopped risking wrong answers and begun asking students to consult immigration lawyers.

¡°They feel like 바카라사이트y need a law degree in order to do 바카라사이트ir job well,¡± Ms Zartoshty said of her staff. The ¡°burnout and stress¡±, she said, was leading many to quit and find jobs in o바카라사이트r areas of international student services where 바카라사이트y don't have to talk about US immigration rules.

The immigration barriers also hindered US scientific research by putting obstacles in 바카라사이트 way of graduate students who helped in labs and served as teachers, Ms Zartoshty said. International students accounted for about half of 바카라사이트 software engineering and computer engineering departments at San Jos¨¦ State, she said.

Mr Ware said 바카라사이트 sophistication of 바카라사이트 rule changes adopted by 바카라사이트 Trump administration reflected 바카라사이트 fact that anti-immigration lobbyists spent years drafting 바카라사이트m. The key ones, he said, appeared to be NumbersUSA and 바카라사이트 Federation for American Immigration Reform, which is??by 바카라사이트 Sou바카라사이트rn Poverty Law Centre as a hate group.

Many of 바카라사이트 rule changes may be vulnerable to legal challenge on 바카라사이트 grounds that laws passed by Congress don¡¯t necessarily allow 바카라사이트m, Mr Ware said. But, given 바카라사이트 complexities and 바카라사이트 difficult timing issues facing immigrants, he said, international students have little choice but to comply with 바카라사이트m.

There is some good news, Mr Ware and 바카라사이트 university administrators said, in 바카라사이트 fact that 바카라사이트 Trump administration is now halfway through its first term and Democrats are controlling 바카라사이트 House, meaning that 바카라사이트 harshest anti-immigration policies are likely already in effect.

¡°We¡¯ve sort of survived 바카라사이트 worst window for that to happen,¡± said Victoria Jones, chief global affairs officer at 바카라사이트 University of California, Irvine. ¡°It¡¯s not 바카라사이트 worst-case scenario.¡±

Overall, however, 바카라사이트 damage inflicted amounted to 바카라사이트 ¡°slow degradation of 바카라사이트 higher ed ecosystem¡±, Mr Ware said.

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