Trump's new visa rules are said to promote the long-standing anti-immigrant parliamentary program and force American schools to reopen.

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on July 6 announced that students in the United States would have to return home if their current program is switched to 100% online teaching in the fall.

In the context of complicated Covid-19, American universities, colleges and vocational schools now have to make a difficult decision for the 2020-2021 school year.

Educational institutions are obliged to provide knowledge and skills to students, but besides that, they are also responsible for ensuring the safety of the staff, teachers, staff and students of

However, the administration of President Donald Trump does not think so.

Although Trump repeatedly asserted that "nCoV will disappear", many states in the United States are witnessing a new strong increase, causing them to stop planning to open the economy and tighten more restrictive measures.

This has led to growing criticism of how to deal with the Trump pandemic.

The results of many recent election surveys are also detrimental to Trump, when Democratic candidate Joe Biden is "prevailing" in some battle states.

The wave of anti-racist protests in the US has not stopped, while the police reform decree Trump signed on June 16 was taciturn.

According to Filipovic, on a broader scale, the latest visa policy shows that the Trump administration is leveraging Covid-19 to advance the long-standing anti-immigration agenda.

Trump's decision to ban citizens from a number of Muslim countries, the majority of whom entered the United States, created a nationwide outcry, but it ultimately stood firm.

The government also implemented a policy of separating children from their parents who are illegal border immigrants, taking the children to the Ministry of Health and Social Services' care facilities.

Now the new policy from the ICE is a reversal of the rules that were enacted during the new Covid-19 boom in the United States, which allowed students to take online classes only to maintain visas.

The new policy "is clearly in place to expel foreign students from the United States and prevent foreign students from entering the US if the schools turn to teaching online," said Charles Kuck, immigration lawyer and representative of the Bar Association

The new rules will force thousands of foreign students to return home if their schools do not offer traditional classes or at least combine traditional and online learning.

However, for many international students, returning home means their Internet connection will be limited, in some places even without Internet, for example, students from rural areas.

Countries like China restrict the content that Internet users can access.

On the other hand, international students studying in the US have very diverse circumstances, they can be refugees, students whose homeland is in conflict or devastated by natural disasters.

Besides, global health risks will be huge if thousands of people are forced to come from the US, the largest epidemic region in the world, radiating every corner of the world.

However, the new visa policy affects not only international students but also the US citizens and national interests.

According to immigration lawyer Fiona McEntee, the loss of a large number of foreign students will be a blow to the finances of US universities, thereby potentially affecting both domestic students.

According to an analysis of the NAFSA Association of International Educators, foreign students attending US universities and colleges contribute US $ 41 billion to the US economy and support 458,290 jobs in 2018 -

NAFSA opposes the new regulation, emphasizing that schools should "be empowered to decide what is best suited to their circumstances."

Size of influence from Trump's student visa policy (Click on image for details).