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Administration reinstates international Cal Poly student and alumni visas

April 28, 2025

By KAREN VELIE

The Trump administration recently reinstated the visas for one international student and three recent Cal Poly San Luis Obispo graduates who had their visas revoked earlier this month, according to the university. The alums remained in the country under temporary employment authorization.

There was a federal mandate to revoke the visas of international students and workers allegedly accused of crimes or involved in antisemitic activities. An estimated 1,800 students at 280 universities had their visas revoked since the start of the year.

At the University of California Santa Barbara, the administration had revoked the visas of 10 international students.

Earlier this year, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to review the status of international students the administration views as threats to national interests.

The revoked visas led to more than 100 lawsuits that argue the revocations violate student rights. Other students elected to leave the United States rather than face possible detention and deportation.

During a hearing on Friday in Oakland, Justice Department Attorney Elizabeth D. Kurlan announced the reactivation of international student visas, according to NBC. Kurlan said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement is working on a new policy that will “provide a framework for status record termination.”

“It’s not in our foreign policy interest, it’s not in our national security interest, to invite people onto our university campuses … who are also going to go there to foment movements that support and excuse foreign terrorist organizations who are committed to the destruction of the United States and the killing and the raping and the kidnapping of innocent civilians – not just in Israel but anywhere they can get their hands on them,” Rubio said during an interview last week.

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What’s the Trump administration going to do next; Stop pedophiles in Churches, Temples and Mosques and honor separation of church and state? Atascadero Bible Church doesn’t allow women as “Elders”. Just a “boys club”. Some states allow people to bleed a foreskin wound with their mouth. Like New York.


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The first amendment, in fact all of them, apply to any person subject to the authority of the USA. It is not limited to citizens.

Using the power of government to coerce or impede free speech is censorship by definition, and a tactic of fascists. So is jailing residents in foreign countries without due process, handing government control to billionaire oligarchs, ignoring court orders because they impede you. Let’s not forget RFK wanting to track – register- families with autistic kids. Tracking your gay kid or grandchild is sure to be next. And last but no least forced birthing and outlawing birth control is on their hit list.

The F word most certainly applies to these actions. At their core they are un-American.


But Republicans – DoNotSee -well, since they continue to cheer this on.


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God forbid the Trump Administration decries freedom of speech and the constitution and uses the federal Government to infringe free speech and states rights and threatens education and free speech and deports legal citizens over free speech as if this is Russia or North Korea or Turkmenistan or Iran.


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I guess these visa holders got their paperwork updated and corrected, good for them.


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Your faith is misplaced….


“On Monday, Trump administration border ‘czar’ Tom Homan said the three U.S. citizen children, all under 10 years old, were placed on deportation flights at their mothers’ request.

Per the report, “One mother who was about to be deported was allowed less than two minutes on the phone with her husband to figure out what would become of her 2-year-old U.S. citizen son,” while one of the other mothers “wasn’t allowed to speak with attorneys or family members before she was deported, accompanied by her U.S.-born children,” despite ICE agents knowing the child had stage 4 cancer.


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No, I believe the Trump folks had to back track on these, as they do on many things, because of heat from the courts. Over 100 lawsuits, and obviously these students were in the right.


https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm8ekk173zo.amp


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