Yup.
Posted on 09/12/2019 8:49:42 PM PDT by Zhang Fei
Nine Chinese students who attend Arizona State University were denied entry into the US when they arrived at Los Angeles International airport last month and university officials are demanding to know why the students were sent back to China.
The students were detained at LAX in the days before the start of classes on August 22 and were on their way to the university’s Phoenix-area campuses, school officials said. But they were “deemed inadmissible” by Customs and Border Protection.
University officials said all the students were academically eligible to return to ASU and to the US under their visas.
A spokesperson for US Customs and Border Protection said in a statement that there are more than 60 reasons a foreigner might be considered inadmissible, including health-related grounds, criminality, security reasons and immigration violations.
The statement said the Chinese students were deemed inadmissible “based on information discovered during the CBP inspection”, but did not elaborate.
A spokesperson for the US State Department referred all inquiries to Customs and Border Protection.
All of the students were undergraduates and among them were at least one engineer, a student studying supply-chain management and some life sciences majors, a university official said.
ASU officials remain in contact with the students, many of whom are continuing their studies through online or independent coursework.
ASU President Michael Crow last week sent letters to the Department of Homeland Security, which has jurisdiction over Customs and Border Protection, and the State Department, requesting a review of each student’s situation and an explanation of the “standard procedures” for screening international students and their electronic devices.
“In our country, where we value due process and celebrate the different ways in which our government behaves from that of the arbitrary and capricious behaviour of other nations, it is beyond my comprehension
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A few weeks before my wife came to the US from China, she was invited to join the Communist Party. The invitation came from the party "representative" for her department (she was in grad school in China).
She told him she'd get back to him on that, then a few days later boarded a plane to the United States.
About six months after we were married, we traveled to (a big city in the northeast US) and met ... him! The party representative!
He was studying for his PhD at a famous university in that city. No hard feelings. He had a new pretty wife himself, and I don't think he was planning to go back.
Based on that request, my guess is that something was found on their 'electronic devices' that CBP did not like. Malware waiting to be planted? Chinese govt. type spyware? Child porn?
With the way the world is going, it could also be that the students are Christians of the non-state-approved variety.
What business is it of some damn college whether their students make it back? Do they defend students who go to jail too?
I’m sick of this crap. The pres wench at my little college does exactly this kind of presumptuous nonsense...defending foreign nationals and illegals at all costs.
While citizen students get penalized for being late on their tuition payments.
Sounds similar to the story of the Palestinian Harvard student a few weeks ago. The university pulled a few stings and they were allowed to enter and return to school.
I suspect the same thing will happen here. That is unless, these Chinese students had run afoul of the Chinese government and were sent back upon the Chi-Coms request. If that is the case, we will never hear from them again.
“In our country, where we value due process and celebrate the different ways in which our government behaves from that of the arbitrary and capricious behaviour of other nations, it is beyond my comprehension how the US government could establish and implement policies that bring about the outcomes we are now witnessing,” [ASU President]Crow wrote.
“. . . it is beyond my comprehension . . ..” Yes, it probably is, President Crow. This statement says much more about you than about the event. You cannot think of any valid reason, any valid reason at all about why these “students” were denied entry?
I can think of at least a half a dozen off the top of my head, starting with spying.
Oh 😮 didn’t think about that possibility! :(
If I was President I could cut College costs by 70% on day one by denying all student visas from hostile countries.
Zampolitsiya
ASU? Are we sure they weren’t just there to party?
Yes. And you can cut them even more by making them underwrite their own student loans.
Sum Ting Wong, officer ?
Chinese student/agents have been involved in scientific and technology espionage for decades here. Professors I know at ASU told me of numerous incidents where students were observed and caught copying documents, and computer files which were assumed to have been sent back to China. Finally, someone is doing something other than just looking the other way.
Unless it's red flag laws of course. Then no due process allowed.
I remember back about 9 years ago that one of the professors at ASU was teaching on the side at a Chinese university in Beijing. He was going to China once every couple of months for conferences and would give paid lectures to a university there.
Student spies working for the government
The family appeared, and had piles of cash to open their business. Money was never an object. The soon bought several houses, cars, clothes, and paid a tuition. They had several children who were attending schools and colleges.
The person I spoke to said the entire "family" was nothing but a well funded Chinese spy ring, and that these "families" are funded by the Chinese government. These cells of spy rings are placed all over the United States.
Not verifying this 100%, but you can draw your conclusions.
Yup.
“.defending foreign nationals and illegals at all costs.”
Because foreign students pay more than twice as much in tuition.
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