[ATTW-L] the ICE memo on international students

Wed Jul 8 13:34:06 UTC 2020

Dear colleagues,

Thank you for keeping this important discussion going and for supporting
our international students at a worst time who are forced to choose between
possible risky exposure or deportation. As we all know, public health
crises are often political. COVID-19 clearly shows the socio-economic and
geo-political dimensions of pandemics.

One of my colleagues at NC State shared a national petition from faculty at
four-year colleges titled "Open Letter Against the Student Ban," which has
gathered over ten thousand signatures. If you want to take a look, here is
the url:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScnWNY7Qk-zW4mZKupEyCgswrNdtU8FX6QDWc_ZCmBI5OjqTA/viewform?fbclid=IwAR1MjaFEfTEpCXiZM6NkxjQHl9WmInsQcffyLKxeUu7rXOCD4r49b11l8Hk&edit_requested=true&usp=embed_facebook

Thank you all for your support for our international students and best
wishes.

Huiling

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 10:15 PM Long, Thomas <thomas.l.long at uconn.edu>
wrote:

> Well said, Dr. McKenzie, and I hope we take  your admonition to heart.
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> Cruelty in the current regime is a design feature, not a design flaw.
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> *From: *Keisha E. McKenzie <k.e.mckenzie at gmail.com>
> *Sent: *Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:57 PM
> *To: *Savage, Gerald <gjsavag at ilstu.edu>; Sam Dragga <sam.dragga at ttu.edu>
> *Cc: *attw-l at attw.org
> *Subject: *Re: [ATTW-L] the ICE memo on international students
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> *Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*
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> Dear Jerry: as a former international student, I can't confirm whether
> obfuscation is prized at DHS but can confirm that DHS departments are
> exceptional at obfuscation! Options for non-citizens have also narrowed
> considerably in the last half-decade.
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> Sam: thank you for sharing this memo. It's worth analysis as an instance
> of executive branch communication and I appreciate the invitation to read
> it as such.
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> I also read it as a prompt for academics and program administrators to
> speak and act against the temporary final rule itself. Could this be a time
> for ATTW to coordinate with other professional organizations like
> NCTE/CCCC
> <https://nam10.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fcccc.ncte.org%2Fcccc%2Fcccc-and-cwpa-joint-statement-in-response-to-the-covid-19-pandemic&data=02%7C01%7Cthomas.l.long%40uconn.edu%7Cc6710de905db4cf53d1408d822d9ec2d%7C17f1a87e2a254eaab9df9d439034b080%7C0%7C1%7C637297666666346687&sdata=b88%2FygBM2ER%2BGiOliPNx%2FWPxKAhmtUzq74ns%2Fz45GB4%3D&reserved=0> about
> possible responses?
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> All: The procedures in the memo force international students to choose
> between COVID-19 exposure and the risk of deportation. Encouraging school
> transfers or travel out of the country mid-pandemic means endangering
> students, instructors, professors, and their families and communities here
> and abroad.
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> This move is also the latest in an inhumane policy trajectory, and if left
> unanswered it won't be the last instance.
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> I urge those of you who are citizens and who teach, advise, or work
> alongside non-citizen students or colleagues to engage your campus
> administrators and international student offices with as much energy as you
> can and as quickly as you can.
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> Please engage, not merely to protect departmental budgets or labor forces,
> but because it is unethical to sacrifice people as this policy requires and
> there's at least a 30-year tradition in technical communication scholarship
> that points us to that conclusion.
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> Thank you to each of you who has spent the last four months pivoting,
> adapting, and trying to preserve educational options for your students.
> They need your continued advocacy now.
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> Regards to all despite the relentless nonsense of this era,
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> Keisha
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> Keisha E. McKenzie, PhD
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> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 3:26 PM Savage, Gerald <gjsavag at ilstu.edu> wrote:
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> Thanks, Sam. Obfuscation must be a highly prized talent at Homeland
> Security.
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> Jerry
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> *From:* ATTW-L <attw-l-bounces at attw.org> on behalf of Dragga, Sam <
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> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 7, 2020 2:52 PM
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> *Subject:* [ATTW-L] the ICE memo on international students
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> If you are looking for a striking example of technical writing with a
> direct impact on your classrooms, consider the memo released yesterday by
> the US Department of Homeland Security (
> https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf
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> The memo explains to college administrators that their international
> (nonimmigrant) students must take either onsite courses or a mix of
> onsite and online courses in the Fall 2020 semester to remain in the United
> States.
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> In addition to raising awareness of the extraordinary conditions for
> international students, the memo offers the opportunity to discuss clarity
> in writing (e.g., note the 33-word opening sentence in the 116-word opening
> paragraph but also the headings and numbered or bulleted lists).
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> And given the experience of the Spring 2020 semester and the ongoing
> COVID-19 crisis, the memo raises ethical questions about putting the
> following key piece of information in a 63-word sentence in the middle of a
> 151-word paragraph on page 2 of a 3-page memo [italics mine]:
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> *If a school changes its operational stance mid-semester, and as a result
> a nonimmigrant student switches to only online classes,* or a
> nonimmigrant student changes their course selections, and as a result, ends
> up taking an entirely online course load, schools are reminded that
> nonimmigrant students within the United States are not permitted to take a
> full course of study through online classes.
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> Sam
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> Sam Dragga
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-- 
Huiling Ding

Associate Professor of Technical Communication and Rhetoric
Director, MS in Technical Communication
Department of English
NC State University
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