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Expert: "Trump just can’t round up students and put them on a plane."

November 07, 2024 (1 min read)

Karin Fischer, Chronicle of Higher Education, Nov. 6, 2024

"Stephen Yale-Loehr, a professor of law at Cornell University who specializes in immigration law, said that while it is important to take Trump’s stances seriously, “there’s a big difference between rhetoric and due process.”  People who are to be deported are first entitled to immigration hearings — and, according to Yale-Loehr, there’s a current backlog of 3.6 million cases. “Trump just can’t round up students and put them on a plane,” he said. Those protections should allay international and immigrant students’ fears."