Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
Trump administration reverses abrupt terminations of foreign students’ US visa registrations
It is amazing how a single presidential election can take a world superpower from "relatively stable" to "significantly unstable" in a couple of months.
I don't think it was a single presidential election that did this, the Republican party has been working towards this at least since they ran Goldwater on an anti-civil rights and anti-new deal platform in 1964. Democracy is a pain in the ass for bigots and oligarchs, so the Republican party united them in opposition against it and now their very long game is paying off. Nixon being pardoned for Watergate, Reagan getting zero blame for Iran Contra, the Supreme Court stealing the 2000 election, Bush lying about WMDs to start a bullshit war to win reelection, McConnell refusing to accept Obama's judicial nominees - all of these attacks on anything that would hold them accountable for their theft of public resources and violence against marginalized people brought us to this point. Trump is just the worst symptom of a disease that's been festering for decades.
Oh sure, I totally agree with all that. The instability has been looming for some time; I've been alive for most of the points you make. Still, relative stability has held on until Jan 21, 2025.
This is really really significant, especially with the other news of arresting Judge Hannah Dugan for opposing an ICE kidnapping in her courtroom. The legal system is forcing them to at least slow their destructive policy implementation and they don't like that.
But also, this is too little too late. Many students have already fled, and those that haven’t will never trust the government again. If you directly threaten someone’s livelihood to the point that they start making international travel plans to get away from you, simply going “oops my bad” isn’t enough to restore their trust.
It will likely have a chilling effect for this entire generation of students.
Or did they? One never knows . . .