Iranian students and Iran-Americans being turned away from US airports

Since August, at least 16 Iranian students have been detailed and turned away at airports, losing their chances to study at prestigious universities, amid new tensions between the U.S. and Iran. These are a few of their names and faces, as published in the New York Times.

The students are largely being detained or deported on the visa revocations on the basis of national origin, which is a permissible factor for consideration. 

Protests of individual cases of returned international students and related advocacy for Iranian-Americans being stopped in airports from coast-to-coast are emerging, but many of these stories are overlooked in the midst of so many immigration-related news developments.

MHC