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Looks like they’re running some AI agent to try and match foreign students to social media accounts. If the US State department doesn’t like the politics of the posts the visa is being revoked. The thing is everyone in the US is protected by the constitution, not just citizens. So this is overturning fundamental rights to free speech and due process. There is no way for these students to contest this. Many people don’t put their full name on social media, often people have the same name. So not only will this violate students first and fifth amendment protections, it will likely be applied to students who simply share the same name or are confused with other students who expressed a political view the government doesn’t like. If this program continues it means that no foreign student in the US is safe from arbitrary deportation. All it takes is someone making a bot pretending to be that student making posts the administration doesn’t like. Since there is no process by which the student can even demonstrate the account is fake!
The Times of India
Hundreds of international students wake up to an email asking them to self deport for campus activism - The Times of India
US News: The US Department of State has asked hundreds of international students, including Indians, to self-deport over alleged campus activism. L...
 https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8-7-2/ALDE_00001262/

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Standard US procedure when giving visas: search all over your social media activity! That’s one of the reasons there are so many illegals in the U.S.! The streamline process to get a visa is ridiculously difficult! But it’s getting worst! Imagine if Elon Musk was now applying for his student visa to the U.S.?
Certainly would not put it past them but I’m also HIGHLY skeptical of Time of India - up there with Epoch Times, NTD, etc. has anyone seen this covered anywhere else in the US news cycle?
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Or you could be aware that there’s massive strategic and cultural advantage to having foreign students coming to learn in your country. You get to sell them on your culture, language, model of working. If you believe in a nationalist competition between countries you what their best people to come study, work, and research in your country. You win the talent war.
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This wasn’t my experience in the physics dept I was in. They all spoke Chinese and thus all obviously stuck together. The vast majority left. The universities benefit by getting extra money. I didn’t see the other benefits you describe. We will be just fine without educating wealthy Chinese who simply want to return home
This is what years of lax immigration policy gets you People who came here to harass Americans or minority groups should never have been allowed into the country in the first place Look at how bad things have got in the UK. Believe it or not, this is the moderate solution.