this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2025
151 points (100.0% liked)

United States | News & Politics

7939 readers
294 users here now

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Colleges and universities across Pennsylvania and the country continue to report international student visas being revoked.

"I only have a semester left and there's only three weeks left for the semester. We have finals coming up. So, with everything going on, it's kind of hard to process," Ma said.

Ma is referring to the sudden phone call he received from his designated student officer in regard to his student visa.

"She called me and told me she had to be the bearer of the bad news, and said, 'Hey, I don't know if you saw the email from the provost, but you're one of the students that we are looking at that had their service terminated.'"

Murphy believes this may be happening from an expunged DUI case involving Ma in 2023. "That [DUI] didn't result in the finding of guilt. I understand the records were expunged," Murphy said. "The case was dismissed and expunged after he went through the process."

top 7 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh there is an explanation. We all know what the reason is. Fucking actual fascists in the white house.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Well usually it is protests. This one is a bit out there. Looks like any visa holder which came in contact with the police, even wrongly, is getting deported.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Protests or publications are the “reasons” but we all know the truth. It’s bog standard formula for a system falling apart at the seams.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

There are other reports that the visa revoking is targeting Muslims and Chinese as well. Because ya know racists gonna racist.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

if this doesn't get resolved, hoping at least the school let him finish online

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago

I'm sure the Trump regime will find a way to threaten universities out of offering such basic fairness.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

This would be a great opportunity for Canadian schools to grab up some of these students. Set up a credit transfer arrangement and some sort of challenge/audit system for courses in progress. Give this guy an engineering degree from McMaster/UoT/Queens/Western/etc and he can add to our pool of educated workers instead.