Students stranded worldwide
January 30, 20172:20 PM ET
ANYA KAMENETZ
Saira Rafiee boarded a plane in Tehran this weekend ... She had been visiting family .. and needed to get back to the U.S. in time for classes at City University of New York's Graduate Center, where she is a Ph.D. student in political science. But ... Rafiee says she was detained in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates and, after nearly 18 hours, sent back to Tehran ...
Allan Wernick, a law professor who runs an immigration resource center at CUNY, calls the situation a "crisis," noting that CUNY has more than 100 students from the affected countries who are here on student visas. "I refer to CUNY as the most immigrant-friendly university in the country" ...
... Mohammed Abdi, an anthropology Ph.D. student at Yale, holds a U.S. Green Card and was in Dubai awaiting a visa to continue his field research in Kabul, Afghanistan. But, as a result of the executive order, he's worried he cannot return to the U.S. Nor can he stay in Dubai for more than 15 days. And, because of his previous work as a human rights activist, he says he can't safely return to his home country of Iran. "It's very ambiguous," Abdi told NPR Ed via Skype. "I am essentially stateless" ...
Undergraduates have also been affected .. Niki Mossafer Rahmati, an MIT engineering student .. was leaving her parents in Iran, headed back to the U.S. for the start of the semester, when she was detained in Qatar ...
http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2017/01/30/512431112/students-stranded-worldwide-by-trump-order
