ICE tells students on visas they must leave US if schools go online-only

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Keep in mind, many of these students can’t go home because of closed borders - in that case they will be arrested and placed in detention (prison).
Who gets arrested for going home visiting from college billsherman?

I think your source on this is wrong and hysterical.
What is your source for this??
 
Who gets arrested for going home visiting from college billsherman?
If the students can’t leave the US because of travel bans, they will be arrested and deported. Since they can’t be physically deported until travel bans are lifted, they will rot in prison until the bans are lifted. They will also, obviously, lose their ability to study in the US.

The source is ICE. SEVP modifies temporary exemptions for nonimmigrant students taking online courses during fall 2020 semester | ICE

The relevant section:

“Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status. If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.”

This sounds somewhat innocent, but if you know ICE’s language you get it. There is only one “immigration consequence” - deportation (there isn’t anything else they can do to you). ICE’s policy under Trump is to arrest and detain in prison all people in deportation proceedings.

You will notice that the policy (if you follow the link) makes no exception for students prevented from returning home due to travel bans.

Your claim of hysterics is uncharitable, and just plain unkind. On a Catholic site, love of the neighbor must be central to all that we do.
 
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I thought we were discussing student visas, not immigrants.
Students on visas are immigrants under US law. They are also foreigners in the US who God commands us to treat the same as native born Americans.
 
billsherman. . . .
they will rot in prison until the bans are lifted.
I went to the link you provided and saw absolutely nothing of the sort.

I also did a word search for “prison”, “detained”, and “jail” and none of these were mentioned.

You are wrong.

They go back home and wait it out there.
Your claim of hysterics is uncharitable, and just plain unkind. On a Catholic site, love of the neighbor must be central to all that we do.
Not if it is histrionic it’s not.
The hysterics had to do with your source, not you.

Go back and re-read the post.

For the readers here, here it is again . . .
I think your source on this is wrong and hysterical.
Bold added for emphasis.

Your misappropriating what I said is uncharitable, and just plain unkind. On a Catholic site, love of the neighbor must be central to all that we do.

You need to pay closer attention to your reading instead of venturing into erroneous charges.

No jail for students going home.
 
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They go back home and wait it out there.
If they can. You are missing the part about the travel bans. There are many of them in place (from both the US and other nations). If a student CAN’T go home, the penalty is prison.

As I explained in my previous post:
The relevant section:

“Active students currently in the United States enrolled in such programs must depart the country or take other measures, such as transferring to a school with in-person instruction to remain in lawful status. If not, they may face immigration consequences including, but not limited to, the initiation of removal proceedings.”

This sounds somewhat innocent, but if you know ICE’s language you get it. There is only one “immigration consequence” - deportation (there isn’t anything else they can do to you). ICE’s policy under Trump is to arrest and detain in prison all people in deportation proceedings.
 
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And how do they go back home bearing in mind travel bans in their home nations and your own? Let us know how this is going to be accomplished.
And you can let me know all the students jailed. Then let us know how many jailings were accomplished.
 
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(name removed by moderator) . . .
I take that to mean you have no answer and are deflecting.
I’m still waiting to see all these jailing that now you are talking about.

There aren’t any and we both know it.

The deflection is coming from you.
 
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(name removed by moderator) still not providing any evidence of these imaginary “jailings” now attempting to deflect even more by focusing on him being annoyed by my writing style here . . .
There may or may not be. ‘We both know it’ is one of those annoying phrases such as ‘even the dogs in the street know that’.
I am still waiting for that list of jailings (name removed by moderator).

Your preoccupation with me, is not going to get you your list of student jailings posted.

Why not just post em up now?
 
(name removed by moderator) trying to drift away from his assertion about all these student jailings (that weren’t). . . .
Given apparently foreign students contribute a huge amount of cash to the system there it seems stupid
 
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I wonder how much trouble US universities would be in.
Maybe they would do better financially if they just bailed all those students out of jail?
 
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billsherman . . .
As I explained in my previous post . .
You explained nothing.

These are conclusions you drew without any facts and attempted to pass them off here.

There are alternatives you didn’t even mention (i.e. getting the consulates involved, government negotiations, going home via different countries [such as someone I know had to do recently to get back to America, etc.]).

Your claims of these jailings of students when they are not occurring is inaccurate (if on accident and deceptive if on-purpose - I think you accidentally misstated this though),
uncharitable, and just plain wrong. On a Catholic site, love of the neighbor must be central to all that we do and providing accurate information is part of that paradigm.
 
Looks like you are “bailing out” of providing “us” with that list of all those students jailed for going home from college (name removed by moderator).

I am fine with you not providing that information.
I don’t think it exists anyway.
 
Looks like you are “bailing out” of providing “us” with that list of all those students jailed for going home from college (name removed by moderator).
Ummm…that’s because the policy went into effect YESTERDAY. Students will probably be given 30 days to leave once their schools go online. If they don’t (or can’t comply) they will have to report to ICE. ICE will then arrest them and initiate deportation proceedings. This will play out over the next few months, not instantaneously.
 
It is a question of law.
And that law (or rule in this case) is immoral, and must be opposed by Catholics because it violates God’s commands.
If they cannot fulfill the requirements of the visa, why should they be allowed to continue to have one?
This has been addressed in several ways above, but to summarize:
  1. This is a temporary problem.
  2. Compliance might be impossible (travel bans)
  3. It is beyond any student’s control.
  4. Students have already been awarded the visas based on heightened requirements (including proving to the US’s satisfaction that they have the finances to support themselves).
  5. Students will suffer great harm.
  6. This policy serves no purpose other than to get rid of more immigrants.
 
Some will be in serious trouble, so this policy may force them to avoid online classes when they know they shouldn’t.

Once again, this is an example of Americans putting dollars before lives.
 
This is a temporary problem.
No way to know that.
Compliance might be impossible (travel bans)
That is a problem. Perhaps ICE needs to work with the government officials in the other countries to facilitate moving these students back.
It is beyond any student’s control
That is irrelevant.
Students have already been awarded the visas based on heightened requirements (including proving to the US’s satisfaction that they have the finances to support themselves).
Hightened based upon a pandemic on the loose?
Students will suffer great harm.
This is unproven.
This policy serves no purpose other than to get rid of more immigrants.
No other purpose that you can fathom.
I, however, see other purposes.
 
If the pandemic is really as bad as the media would have us believe, then these students would be safer in their own countries.
 
No way to know that.
You think the pandemic is going to be permanent? It’s not. This too shall pass.
Perhaps ICE needs to work with the government officials in the other countries to facilitate moving these students back.
ICE doesn’t work that way. You might mean the State Department. A decent number of travel bans are imposed by the same administration that imposed this policy though. I suspect that means they don’t care if the students are capable of complying. This administration has been all too happy to lock up immigrants before, I see no reason to think they aren’t itching to do it again.
That is irrelevant.
Not if you are a Christian and motivated by God’s command to love the immigrant as yourself.
Hightened based upon a pandemic on the loose?
In part. Also based on provisions added since 9/11, and additional hurdles added by the Trump and Obama Administrations prior to this one. It has never been harder or more expensive to get a student visa to study here.
This is unproven.
You think putting someone in prison wouldn’t harm them? Or deporting them would cause no harm?
I, however, see other purposes.
I, too, would like to have you explain them to me. Pandemic concerns? Well if they can’t go home, how could prison be a safer place to be than a dorm or an apartment?
 
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