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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [ATTW-L] the ICE memo on international students</font>
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Well said, Dr. McKenzie, and I hope we take your admonition to heart.</p>
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<b>From: </b><a href="mailto:k.e.mckenzie@gmail.com">Keisha E. McKenzie</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Tuesday, July 7, 2020 8:57 PM<br>
<b>To: </b><a href="mailto:gjsavag@ilstu.edu">Savage, Gerald</a>; <a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu">
Sam Dragga</a><br>
<b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:attw-l@attw.org">attw-l@attw.org</a><br>
<b>Subject: </b>Re: [ATTW-L] the ICE memo on international students</p>
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<span style="color:black">*Message sent from a system outside of UConn.*</span></p>
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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.</p>
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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
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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
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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. </p>
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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.</p>
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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. </p>
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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. </p>
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Regards to all despite the relentless nonsense of this era,</p>
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On Tue, Jul 7, 2020, 3:26 PM Savage, Gerald <<a href="mailto:gjsavag@ilstu.edu" target="_blank">gjsavag@ilstu.edu</a>> wrote:</p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt; color:black">Thanks, Sam. Obfuscation must be a highly prized talent at Homeland Security.
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<b><span style="color:black">From:</span></b><span style="color:black"> ATTW-L <<a href="mailto:attw-l-bounces@attw.org" target="_blank">attw-l-bounces@attw.org</a>> on behalf of Dragga, Sam <<a href="mailto:Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank">Sam.Dragga@ttu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, July 7, 2020 2:52 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:attw-l@attw.org" target="_blank">attw-l@attw.org</a> <<a href="mailto:attw-l@attw.org" target="_blank">attw-l@attw.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [ATTW-L] the ICE memo on international students</span> </p>
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<p>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 (<a href="https://nam02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ice.gov%2Fdoclib%2Fsevis%2Fpdf%2Fbcm2007-01.pdf&data=02%7C01%7Ckaind%40ecu.edu%7C279b050d15cf4e1a3b8d08d822e4d284%7C17143cbb385c4c45a36ac65b72e3eae8%7C1%7C1%7C637297713497411350&sdata=imztOt9t6QleWXZI6Zex5Q59tl1wtPtSocyftTPPCPg%3D&reserved=0" originalsrc="https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf" shash="lXS6/EtUScsaWsbxp6b8Mg9mASqbQCDBhGklbvmXeY3ID8q6RI3BmbZJ29kufzBF6qIV9B+99JcToHa+tMzJ5ZrisAvXpiZKpHugSVPsq8VvxPxJ25+2rC3xIqwK33H0nKfPCX/Vd6TGfsyGPcj9QFuB/SJGHjUKbs6px8VM8mQ=" target="_blank">https://www.ice.gov/doclib/sevis/pdf/bcm2007-01.pdf</a>).
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<p>The memo explains to college administrators that their international (nonimmigrant) students must<b><i>
</i></b>take either onsite courses or a mix of onsite and online courses in the Fall 2020 semester to remain in the United States.</p>
<p>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). </p>
<p>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]: </p>
<p style="margin-left:.5in"><i>If a school changes its operational stance mid-semester, and as a result a nonimmigrant student switches to only online classes,</i> 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.</p>
<p>Sam</p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Sam Dragga</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Professor Emeritus, Texas Tech University</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Editor, <i>Technical Communication</i>
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<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><a href="mailto:sam.dragga@ttu.edu" target="_blank">sam.dragga@ttu.edu</a></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:9.0pt; font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">1-806-543-6099</span></p>
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