MIT warns foreign students of possible visits from ICE

BOSTON — The Massachusetts Institute of Technology is warning international students that federal immigration officials may visit their work sites to verify that their employment is directly related to their studies.

A Homeland Security website says the visits are meant to “reduce the potential for abuses” of the visa extension. It says employers will be given notice of visits 48 hours in advance unless the visit is tied to a complaint or other evidence of noncompliance. In 2018, Chinese national Weiqiang Zhang was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to steal proprietary rice seeds developed in the U.S. and giving them to visitors from China. He previously received a doctorate at Louisiana State University.

If they have valid student visas they have nothing to worry about.

The most promising talent will go elsewhere. Our loss.

This is a very efficient way to make foreign students study someplace where they won't be harassed. America's universities are not going to have the reputations they have enjoyed for decades.

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