Pirate's Cove

Nobody actually knows why, but, the local Raleigh Credentialed Media is on the case

6 UNC international students have visas terminated by federal government, school says

Six students at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill have had their visas revoked by the federal government, the school said Tuesday.

“UNC-Chapel Hill’s International Student and Scholars Services is aware that, at this time, the Student Exchange and Visitor Program records six of our international have been terminated by the U.S. government,” the school’s media relations department said.

No reason was given for the termination. It is unclear whether the six affected are undergraduate or graduate students, which programs are enrolled in, and which countries they came from. It is also unclear whether the students are still in the U.S. or whether they have left the country. (snip)

The revocation of the UNC students’ visas comes less than a week after two N.C. State University international students also had their visas terminated. According to NC State, those two students — who the Muslim Student Association at N.C. State said were engineering majors — left the U.S. as a result of their visas being revoked.

Neither the WRAL nor ABC11 articles really added anything different, though their focus was more on students being upset and stuff, like from ABC11

UNC is home to thousands of international students. UNC Junior Caroline Strada says it was important to speak up for fellow students as they worry if they could be next.

“They’re scared and rightfully so because you come here to be educated you come here to get a better education and if you say something that someone doesn’t agree with or an administration doesn’t agree with you’re axed? It just doesn’t seem right,” she says.

So, does she have knowledge, like maybe these students were involved in calling for the eradication of Israel and Jews during the protests? And WRAL

“My parents came here and they had to work so hard to build a life here,” said UNC student Aditi Nayak. I think that it sucks because these people are also working to build a life here.”

Um, no, they do not get to build a life here. They were on student visas. They go to school and when school is done they go back to their home countries. Or somewhere else. Just not here in the U.S. What do they teach kiddies at schools these days? Their knowledge is abominable.

The Raleigh News and Observer adds some info

International students are required to obtain visas to enroll and study at colleges around the United States. In addition to visas, international students are assigned records in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, a federal database maintained by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.

If a student’s visa is revoked, it does not automatically mean they must leave the country. But if a student’s SEVIS record is terminated — as the UNC students’ records were, according to the university — they are deemed “out of status” and could be subject to deportation or other removal proceedings, an immigration attorney previously told The N&O.

And their SEVIS records have been terminated. Hence, they will be repatriated out of the U.S. And, visas are being terminated all over. Stanford, Harvard, multiple Maryland colleges, around three dozen booted from California universities, Massachusetts, and more. We may not know why, or even who, in most cases, but, we can all make an educated guess that they were involved in the pro-Hamas/anti-Jew protests. From that final link

Another from China added, “I hope everybody here, especially for international students, can study in peace without worrying.”

Would that also include the Jewish students, who were harassed and abused? There is a reason that Harvard barred 13 pro-Hamas students from graduating. What about students being able to study in peace without pro-Hamas demonstrators taking over buildings and blocking the walkways and such.

By the way, I wonder how many students had their visas ended under Biden, without the news caring.