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2020-07-14International Students Fear Deportation For Taking Online Classes
The article is titled "In reversal, federal government will allow international students to stay in the U.S. while taking only online classes," published by The Texas Tribune and written by Raga Justin. The article covers a huge issue that impacted international students as U.S. universities were making final decisions having whether they were conducting virtual or in-person classes in response to the pandemic. In the summer of 2020, the Trump administration had announced that international college and university students would be deported if they were enrolled in only online classes for the fall 2020 semester. The potential for international students to be deported for the fall semester was frightening as many students faced uncertainty about how the upcoming semester would go. This terrifying for schools like St. Mary's, with a large international student population from all over the world. Fortunately, in early July, Federal officials reversed the policy so international students could stay in the U.S. while taking online courses for safety. -
2020-05-18Arbitrary and capricious': Study casts doubt on Trump administration's COVID-19 payments to tribes
"As tribes continue to fight for the $8 billion in coronavirus relief they were promised more than seven weeks ago, new research is casting doubt on the accuracy and fairness of the Trump administration's handling of the fund." -
2020-05-03My pandemic political views
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2020-03-09A Journal of the Plague Year 2020
A personal journal of our quarantine and current events -
04/06/2020Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic
As more information comes to light about the warning signs of the virus, people I've spoken to feel very angry about the response from the federal government. News media continues to shed light on the timeline of the US government response. -
03/25/2020Trump team failed to follow NSC’s pandemic playbook
“The NSC devised the guide — officially called the Playbook for Early Response to High-Consequence Emerging Infectious Disease Threats and Biological Incidents, but known colloquially as “the pandemic playbook” — across 2016. The project was driven by career civil servants as well as political appointees, aware that global leaders had initially fumbled their response to the 2014-2015 spread of Ebola and wanting to be sure that the next response to an epidemic was better handled.”