Actions: Defend M-1 and F-1 intl. students

[chestnut_pod]

ICE recently released new regulations requiring international students who take fully online courseloads come fall to leave the country or face deportation. This is transparently a two-birds/one-stone situation in which the Trump administration pressures schools into reopening unsafely and pursues its xenophobia. This all came out yesterday, but there are already things you can do. Safety and students and teachers and staff not dying is obviously the top priority, but there are workarounds that are possible.

1. Sign these various online petitions. Also sign on to this open letter from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

2. Send letters to your representatives. This can be done to your senators through ActionNetwork . As for your House members, it's particularly important that you contacted them if they sit on this subcommittee. Call them all too. You can find email and call scripts written by Cal and Wesleyan students here.

3. Pressure universities. Saying this as a perpetual student, here: you can't trust them and they don't care. Go bug them: UC system, Cal Poly (SLO), Cal Poly (Pomona), University of Washington, Baruch College.

4. Share this class-swap spreadsheet (created by Sumana Kaluvai) with undergraduate students in your lives. If you are an undergrad student, please consider adding yourself to the directory. If you're a teacher, a grad student, or in any other way affiliated with a university, make sure that your school is on this list (if it needs to be) and spread the sheet around your lists, classes, etc.

Comments

[monanotlisa]

Thank you! This is a travesty.

[chestnut_pod]

At least there is a law suit already in action!