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The Hill
12 minutes ago
- The Hill
Trump tightens reins on foreign students in multifront immigration crackdown on universities
President Trump is making it harder and harder for international students and immigrants to pursue higher education in the U.S. Dreamers, foreign students seeking visas and potentially even those looking to work in the country after graduation have all found themselves caught in the crossfire as Trump seeks to curb immigration while also cracking down on colleges and universities. 'It certainly did strike me that universities kept coming up as a very attractive target, and as a place where a lot of things that might not be really noticeable for another few years are becoming noticeable just in the scope of a few months,' said Dara Lind, a senior fellow at the American Immigration Council. The most recent Trump administration action came against Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, those who came to the country undocumented as children who are allowed to renew their status every two years to avoid deportation. The Education Department announced last week it was investigating five universities for scholarship programs they have for DACA recipients, arguing the policies are unfair to U.S. citizens. 'As we mark President Trump's historic six months back in the White House, we are expanding our enforcement efforts to protect American students and lawful residents from invidious national origin discrimination of the kind alleged here,' said Acting Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights Craig Trainor. Foreign students coming to the U.S. now must go through a new social media check when applying for a visa, which has resulted in individuals purging their online accounts of any information that could be considered controversial. For those who have been studying in the U.S. over the past six months, life has been a whirlwind. Thousands were taken off the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS), a reporting system that gives information about international students to the Department of Homeland Security — then later reinstated after an uproar. Multiple students and faculty have been arrested and targeted for deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian demonstrations, with the State Department alleging they pose a risk to U.S. foreign policy. Most of the individuals have been released from custody but are still facing deportation trials. 'I think they decided to target universities, particularly after the campus protests that happened in the previous year, and they've been looking for different leverage points to be able to force the universities to act in a way that Trump officials want them to act,' said Stuart Anderson, executive director for the National Foundation for American Policy. 'One point of leverage has been research funds, because that involves a large amount of money. But another part, another part of that leverage has been international student policy, because it's something that the federal government does have power over,' Anderson added. Advocates argue universities need to be willing to step up and fight back, despite the risk of federal funding pauses that have fallen on multiple institutions. 'We need to leverage all the levers that we have at our disposal, everything from comment letters when there are proposed rules, to legal action when that's appropriate, to really understanding how we navigate these different, evolving and complicated immigration policies in a way that continues our compliance with the law and support our students,' said Miriam Feldblum, president and CEO of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. 'It's not one type of actions that we need to take. We need to be attuned and nimble to take a variety of actions in order to support our campuses and communities,' Feldblum added. The White House did not immediately respond to The Hill's request for comment. International students who are at universities specifically targeted by the Trump administration, such as Harvard and Columbia, have even larger concerns. The administration tried to take away Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, though the courts have so far rejected that move. The federal government has not given up, however, and launched an additional investigation into Harvard's compliance with enrolling foreign students. Separately, Columbia last week said it would in the future tell the Trump administration if an international student is expelled, one of a list of reforms to which the school agreed in order to get federal funds unfrozen. 'The administration has already identified universities — particularly a few elite universities — as individual targets for its culture war. That going after Columbia, going after Harvard — in a lot of respects, they've already identified that these are battles that they want to pick and that they want to have publicity in picking on them,' said Lind. Advocates worry the Trump administration will also seek to end a program that allows international students to work for a year in the U.S. after they graduate or require foreign students to apply for extensions if their studies take longer than originally predicted. 'You would get, eventually, hundreds or thousands of extensions a year, potentially and it would discourage international students from coming to United States, particularly if the extensions were not approved easily or regularly or if it was going to interfere with people being able to study or continue to study,' Anderson said.
The Hill
12 minutes ago
- The Hill
Trump opens new golf course in Scotland
President Trump on Tuesday opened his new golf course in Aberdeen, playing a round of golf before returning back to Washington, D.C. after his swing in Scotland. 'We'll play it very quickly and then I go back to D.C. and we put out fires all over the world,' Trump said at the opening ceremony. 'We did one yesterday, as you know, we stopped the war,' he continued, referring to Thailand and Cambodia agreeing to a ceasefire to end five days of fighting. 'That's much more important than playing golf. As much as I like it, it's much more important,' The president, surrounded by his sons Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., cut a long red ribbon to mark the official opening. The president's signature song, 'YMCA,' played at the course and then the family exited the tee area before he hit a drive. After he hit a drive, Eric Trump did the same, followed by Irish professional golfer Paul McGinley and American professional golfer Rich Beem. The president watched and then walked along to continue his round of golf. Before exiting to go play, Trump responded to a shouted question on what he would say to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu amid the war in Gaza. He responded that he's 'trying to get things straightened out' The president called the Aberdeen course 'an unbelievable development' during his remarks. 'I guess we're going to be hitting a couple of balls. And we're going to play the round,' he added. 'I'll be playing quickly and then I'll be heading back. I look forward to that but I really look forward to playing.' Trump also thanked the media for being 'terrific' during the trip and said they're 'wonderful news' and not 'fake news' as of Tuesday. The president's sons spoke before the president and Eric Trump said the course started as a 'passion project for my father.' The new 18-hole course is outside of Aberdeen and will be named after his mother, Mary Anne MacLeod, who was born in Scotland. Trump owns two other golf courses in Scotland — a separate one in Aberdeen that opened in 2012 and one at Turnberry that opened in 2014.
Axios
12 minutes ago
- Axios
EPA seeks to cancel scientific basis for climate regulations
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday he's issuing draft plans to overturn the agency's 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare — a move guaranteed to spark litigation. Why it matters: It's President Trump's most direct effort to rip out climate regulations root and branch — and make it harder for a successor to impose new ones. The "endangerment finding" provides a key legal underpinning for regulating heat-trapping gases from cars, power plants and more under the Clean Air Act. Driving the news:"This is been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion," Zeldin said on Ruthless, the popular conservative podcast where he announced the plan. EPA first signaled in March that it would attempt to overturn the decision. Catch up quick: EPA issued the finding in response to a landmark 2007 Supreme Court decision, Massachusetts v. EPA, which held that greenhouse gases are pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The ruling led then-President Obama in 2009 to issue an order allowing EPA to establish emissions standards for sources shown to reasonably affect health and welfare. Zeldin has said the decision stipulated that EPA was authorized — but not obligated — to regulate greenhouse gases. The big picture: Researchers and environmentalists have warned ahead of the proposal that it conflicts with the scientific consensus on the unfolding harms from climate change. "It is callous, dangerous and a breach of our government's responsibility to protect the American people from this devastating pollution," the Environmental Defense Fund said ahead of the long-expected plan. And Dan Becker of the Center for Biological Diversity said in a statement Tuesday: "By revoking this key scientific finding Trump is putting fealty to Big Oil over sound science and people's health." State of play: Zeldin argued that he's in favor of less pollution, and cast emissions rules as a distraction, saying "this is an economic issue." "We want clean air, land and water. Conservatives love the environment, want to be good stewards of the environment," he said. But he alleged there are people who want to "bankrupt the country" in the name of battling climate change. Friction point: Zeldin said the agency welcomes a battle over what he called faulty conclusions about climate harms. The EPA administrator would make the final determination after a public comment period. "We're going to go out to public comment. We're not afraid of allowing the public to weigh in," Zeldin said. What we're watching: Certain legal battles if and when EPA finalizes the draft proposal after the comment period.
