A valid U.S. visa didn ’t stop these Chinese graduate students from being deported

More than a dozen Chinese graduate students holding valid U.S. visas are the latest pawns amid the rising political tensions between the two countries. In the past 3 months, students in Ph.D. science programs at Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, and other major U.S. research universities have been denied re-entry after visiting family in China—and immediately sent back home. Why they were blocked is unclear. But their institutions are scrambling to find ways for these students, some of whom are banned from returning to the United States for 5 years, to complete their research and earn their degrees. The banned students from Yale have compiled an unofficial list of recent incidents, and Yale held a town hall earlier this week to give international students on campus a chance to air their concerns. The targeted students declined interview requests from Science Insider and have chosen to remain anonymous for fear of jeopardizing their chances of returning to the U.S. But some have written about their harrowing experiences. For one, it was a 50-hour ordeal in December 2023 that began at Dulles International Airport outside of Washington, D.C. It included an 8-hour interrogation and a body search by agents of U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), 12 hours in solitary confinement, and the required purchase of a $3700 one-way ticket to Beijing. “How did I end up back here?” she lamented in a blog posted by the news unit of the Chinese A...
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