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Is there a point to this move, besides xenophobia and cruelty?

• edmundsauto 6y ago
  Put pressure on universities to have in person classes, thus making it appear like things are "back to normal" for US based students before election day? The college educated suburban voter is where Trump has been shedding support.
• sukilot 6y ago
  Logic. The visa is for people with a genuine need to be in the USA for education. Obviously online school is no such reason. Regardless of how you feel about immigration, the education visa is not the way to permit non-educational immigration.
• Vrondi 6y ago
  This essentially maintains the existing status quo without updating it for the new realities. It was already true that you couldn't stay in the USA on a student Visa if you were not taking face-to-face classes. They're continuing to enforce that without changing anything for the changed world reality.
• N1H1L 6y ago
  The cruelty is the point.