MIT and other higher education institutions in the United States have sent out advisories to its international students and employees asking them to return from their winter break before January 20, the day Donald Trump swears in as the 47th President of the United States.
The advisory comes in the wake of the talk about mass deportation of illegal immigrants in the US by the in-coming administration. There are estimated to be more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.
A recent Open Doors 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange said that there are 1.1 million international students in the US.
India has the most with 330,000. According to estimates by Higher Ed Immigration Portal, some 400,000 unauthorized students are currently enrolled in US higher education.
As many as over 330,000 international students from India have valid F-Visa, which would save them from any visa ban by the incoming Trump Administration.
Undocumented students do not expect to leave the country. In any case, based on what happened to them in 2017, where the first Trump Administration issued an executive order on January 27 barred immigrants and non-immigrant travellers from seven majority Muslim nations from entering the US for 90 days.
MIT called out on students to ignore such hearsays or speculations.
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