Incoming Harvard Freshman Deported After Visa Revoked

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We should be educating our own kids first. Why not?

If you think your alma mater should be admitting fewer international students, write a letter and withhold your alumni donation. But this boy earned a spot, won a scholarship, was cleared for a US visa by the Embassy and through a rigorous process in his home country, and then was denied at the airport. That's ludicrous. You have to be able to see that.

They obviously found something on his phone or laptop they didn’t see earlier. It happens.

They found allegedly anti-US social media posts by his friends.

How, in your world, is that grounds for revoking his visa?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should be educating our own kids first. Why not?

If you think your alma mater should be admitting fewer international students, write a letter and withhold your alumni donation. But this boy earned a spot, won a scholarship, was cleared for a US visa by the Embassy and through a rigorous process in his home country, and then was denied at the airport. That's ludicrous. You have to be able to see that.

They obviously found something on his phone or laptop they didn’t see earlier. It happens.

Do you always have this much faith in the system, or just when the person being abused is Muslim?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should be educating our own kids first. Why not?

You want CBP making this decision?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Good. More room for US citizens at our universities.

+1. Seriously. More than 1 million overseas students come to the US every year to start studies. Universities like it because it shows the university to be a "world leader" but the situation has gotten absurd, with little SLACs like my own boasting about its huge international student body. All the colleges follow Harvard. Yes, Harvard, Yale, etc. are world-class universities but not all institutions in the U.S. but due to the ranking publications, ALL institutions now have to seek out student bodies that come from all 50 states and 83 countries, and that's just not right.

I learned so much at my SLAC from foreign students. I couldn't imagine my experience without them. College would have been much less enriching without them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should be educating our own kids first. Why not?

If you think your alma mater should be admitting fewer international students, write a letter and withhold your alumni donation. But this boy earned a spot, won a scholarship, was cleared for a US visa by the Embassy and through a rigorous process in his home country, and then was denied at the airport. That's ludicrous. You have to be able to see that.

They obviously found something on his phone or laptop they didn’t see earlier. It happens.

Do you always have this much faith in the system, or just when the person being abused is Muslim?

I have zero faith in our college admissions process. Tune in to today’s news about some of the elite Hollywood scammers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:American taxpayers are giving Harvard many millions of dollars every year. Why are we funding foreigners?

WTF are you talking about? Who is "funding"?

American taxpayers. Check your comprehension.
Why is Harvard getting federal aid to host foreigners?

You seem to have missed this part:
Ajjawi wrote that he has also contacted AMIDEAST, the non-profit organization that awarded him a scholarship to study in the U.S., which is now providing him legal assistance.

1. Zero federal grants?
2. How much was the scholarship?

You have to be a US Citizen to have access to US government financial aid.

Seriously. What ignorance. One of the reasons universities like international students so much is because they aren't eligible for federal financial aid, so most are full-pay. Of course you have exceptions, like this young man.

I’m confused. How is this young man an exception?

Because he’s not full-pay, he’s on an AMIDEAST scholarship.

Full pay means that the university receives the full tuition. In this case, that tuition is paid by AMIDEAST.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We should be educating our own kids first. Why not?

If you think your alma mater should be admitting fewer international students, write a letter and withhold your alumni donation. But this boy earned a spot, won a scholarship, was cleared for a US visa by the Embassy and through a rigorous process in his home country, and then was denied at the airport. That's ludicrous. You have to be able to see that.

They obviously found something on his phone or laptop they didn’t see earlier. It happens.

Do you always have this much faith in the system, or just when the person being abused is Muslim?

I have zero faith in our college admissions process. Tune in to today’s news about some of the elite Hollywood scammers.

Which is relevant to this discussion and situation how.....?




(Let me save you the trouble. It’s not.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Good. More room for US citizens at our universities.

+1. Seriously. More than 1 million overseas students come to the US every year to start studies. Universities like it because it shows the university to be a "world leader" but the situation has gotten absurd, with little SLACs like my own boasting about its huge international student body. All the colleges follow Harvard. Yes, Harvard, Yale, etc. are world-class universities but not all institutions in the U.S. but due to the ranking publications, ALL institutions now have to seek out student bodies that come from all 50 states and 83 countries, and that's just not right.

I learned so much at my SLAC from foreign students. I couldn't imagine my experience without them. College would have been much less enriching without them.

+1. One of my roommates was from India and another was from a Caribbean island I had never heard of before. I learned so much and my Indian roommate escaped an arranged marriage and is still married to her college boyfriend 20 years later.

[Anonymous]

Some of you people are scary.

[Anonymous]

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I have zero faith in our college admissions process. Tune in to today’s news about some of the elite Hollywood scammers.

So you're in the college admission forum because???

[Anonymous]

Lesson to be learned here...

Careful who you're friends with on these social media apps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lesson to be learned here...

Careful who you're friends with on these social media apps.

Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:American taxpayers are giving Harvard many millions of dollars every year. Why are we funding foreigners?

WTF are you talking about? Who is "funding"?

American taxpayers. Check your comprehension.
Why is Harvard getting federal aid to host foreigners?

You seem to have missed this part:
Ajjawi wrote that he has also contacted AMIDEAST, the non-profit organization that awarded him a scholarship to study in the U.S., which is now providing him legal assistance.

1. Zero federal grants?
2. How much was the scholarship?

You have to be a US Citizen to have access to US government financial aid.

Seriously. What ignorance. One of the reasons universities like international students so much is because they aren't eligible for federal financial aid, so most are full-pay. Of course you have exceptions, like this young man.

I’m confused. How is this young man an exception?

Because he’s not full-pay, he’s on an AMIDEAST scholarship.

Full pay means that the university receives the full tuition. In this case, that tuition is paid by AMIDEAST.

I haven’t seen verification of that. Have you?
Perhaps Harvard gave him a discount.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We should be educating our own kids first. Why not?

I. can't. even.

[Anonymous]

The kid had a valid Visa and a scholarship, and no doubt is smarter than many who have posted responses to this thread. FFS. The ignorance and racism of some of these posts are just astounding.