Almost two weeks after rescinding a rule on all international students and online courses, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) issued a new guidance on whether newly-enrolled international students can take online courses without…
Topic: Department of Homeland Security
Agency backtracks on international students and online learning rule
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) withdrew its international student policy after a little over a week, when several higher education institutions filed lawsuits against the rule. According to Inside Higher Ed, the rule required…
Obama’s Homeland Security Secretary Asked to Withdraw from USC Law School Commencement Address
Student outcry surrounding an invited speaker, former Obama homeland security secretary Jeh Johnson, forced Johnson to withdraw from speaking at USC’s law school commencement.
Immigration 101
Academics may want to downplay the increasing level of unchecked immigration at America’s southern border but those levels keep rising in real time. “Late in 2013, Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials and members of…
Some Georgetown University Students Think DHS Secretary’s Speech will Make Illegal Immigrant Students Feel Unsafe
A speech by the sitting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security could make illegal immigrant students feel unsafe, at least that’s what some Georgetown University students are alleging.
Students Demand University Becomes a “Sanctuary Campus”
This doesn’t sound like a good idea, especially after an American woman was murdered by an illegal immigrant in San Francisco over a year ago and it became front-page news: Students at the University of…
Corrosion of Sanctuary Cities
“Sanctuary cities” that refuse to turn over deportable felons to the feds are frequently located in college towns. Yet and still, it’s hard to find academics who will speak ill of them, no matter how…