• MEDIA: Trump Makes US Entry Lengthy, Costly for Workers and Travelers

    From John D Groenveld@21:1/5 to All on Thu Aug 28 23:20:52 2025
    Michael Bloomberg's guest blogger, Andrew Kreighbaum on whether
    Linda McMahon is lobbying Kristi Noem and Norm Braman's Little
    Marco Rubio to spare Big .EDU presidents and deans having to take
    haircuts due to Donald Trump ordering State.GOV and DHS.GOV to
    reimplement "extreme vetting": <URL:https://news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-report/trump-makes-us-entry-lengthy-costly-for-workers-and-travelers>
    | US colleges and universities could see a 30% to 40% drop in new
    | international student arrivals this fall thanks to a combination of
    | factors like backlogs for visa interviews, added scrutiny at
    | consulates, and a travel ban blocking scholars from 19 countries.
    |
    | After freezing interview appointments at the "absolute worst time"
    | of the year, the State Department is conducting new social media
    | reviews that are taking up to a week for an individual visa
    | applicant, said Steve Springer, director of regulatory practice
    | liaison for NAFSA: Association of International Educators.
    |
    | "All of these delays are piling up on top of each other," he said.
    | "Early indications to us are they were overly optimistic about how
    | fast the social media vetting would go."

    Which Big .EDU presidents and deans are preparing to shut their
    campus doors in 2026?
    John
    groenveld@acm.org
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    We've covered Marco Rubio and Revolver's Darren Beattie taking on
    Brazil's censorship tyrants, and those efforts are already making
    waves. Step by step, the pushback is bringing freedom back onto the
    world stage. Trump's latest move in Brazil was a free speech nuke."
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