Anticipating Travel Bans, Universities Put International Students on High Alert

Universities in various states are advising international students and staff to consider cutting their semester break short and returning to campus before President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration on Jan. 20, 2025. The institutions say they fear that Trump will immediately enact a travel ban preventing certain foreign nationals from re-entering the United States. Ahead of the end of the fall semester, Cornell University, Harvard University, Brown University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and University of Massachusetts Amherst communicated travel concerns to students and staff who could be affected by such an order, according to their websites or documents provided to The Epoch Times. Cornell University, which begins the spring semester on Jan. 21, announced that Trump will “likely” order a travel ban for citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Nigeria, Myanmar, Sudan, Tanzania, Iran, Libya, North Korea, Syria, Venezuela, Yemen, and Somalia....