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   Alex Hanna (alex@dair-community.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Mar-2025 23:56:25 JST Alex Hanna

   The State Department has said they have revoked visas of more than 300 students. They have been terrorizing hundreds and aim to terrorize hundreds, if not thousands more.

   Faculty on here: how are you protecting your international students? Are you connecting with local immigration defense groups? How are you protecting them from being snatched off the street?

   https://www.axios.com/2025/03/27/trump-palestinian-hamas-purge-colleges-protests

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     Alex Hanna (alex@dair-community.social)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 05:02:38 JST Alex Hanna

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     Your students aren't safe in little blue enclaves. This is happening in NY, Boston, LA. What plans are you making? How are you using citizen and white privilege to ensure your students aren't abducted by ICE terrorists?

     Faculty, postdocs, and other grad students are going to have to protect your international colleagues. We certainly can't expect most universities to do so.

     Rich Felker repeated this.
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     Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻 (apodoxus@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 20:55:12 JST Sunflower Björnskalle 🌻

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     @alex This is the way everyone should be thinking about everything. Instead of pointing out the dumb ass lies, mistakes, hypcracies, etc. of the admin, THIS should be the conversation. What are people going to do and how? There's so much we can do. The underground railroad took time to setup. We should probably be planning (within reason) for complete collapse tho tbh. What could we do if we really believed that's how this was gonna go?

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     Stephanie Moore (stephaniemoore@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 20:57:44 JST Stephanie Moore

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     @alex First and foremost, I’m talking with them to make sure they’re aware and have plans. I thought many would be stressed. Instead, most I’ve talked with haven’t been paying attention to the news and didn’t know what was happening. I had to inform them then talk with them about plans.

     Our university created a task force and has been holding sessions with faculty and staff (what to do, rights, what to communicate to students, etc.) centered on protecting our community.