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Wednesday, February 1, 2017
Trump’s travel ban raises questions, concerns at UO
international students.
As many as 17,000 students from
the seven named countries study in
the United States, according to the
Institute of International Education.
But citizens of other Muslim-ma-
jority nations such as Turkey, Jordan
or Tunisia who are temporarily
studying, teaching or researching
in the United States — and even
Muslim-Americans who live her
permanently — say they are shaken
by the federal orders.
During a forum Monday, the UO
tried to answer student questions
from about 350 students and faculty
about the ever-shifting federal
policy.
“I’m from one of these seven
countries, is it safe for me to travel
outside the U.S.?” Galvin said. “We
can be pretty certain that the answer
to that is ‘no.’?”
Federal customs agents are
unlikely to allow students with visas
who leave to return to the United
States to resume their studies.
But if a student in the United
States is from a Muslim-majority
county that’s not on the list of seven,
is it safe for them to travel abroad?
“On Jan. 30 at (2:34 p.m.) Pacific
time, it seems like it doesn’t apply
to them, but, no, we can’t be sure
that this set of immigration rulings
will not be extended,” Galvin said.
He even said that faculty or
students with green cards — which
By DIANE DIETZ
The Register-Guard
EUGENE (AP) — University of
Oregon officials tried to clarify for
their Muslim international students
just what President Trump’s
executive orders on visas mean to
them — even as the meaning grew
cloudier.
Late in the day, acting U.S.
Attorney General Sally Yates
ordered Justice Department lawyers
not to defend Trump’s executive
orders because she’s not sure
they’re legal. She was subsequently
fired.
“We’re all carefully watching
what’s coming from D.C. and we’re
trying to interpret it,” UO Vice
Provost for International Affairs
Dennis Galvan said. “But we’re
at a moment when there’s a lot of
change coming fast.”
The orders Trump issued Friday
blocked refugee entry into the
United States for 120 days, barred
Syrian refugees indefinitely and
stopped residents from seven select
Muslim-majority countries — Iran,
Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria
and Yemen — from entry for 90
days.
The UO enrolls 39 students
from those nations among its 3,200
international students. Oregon State
University has 165 students from
the targeted countries, of 3,500 total
the ground, the thieves stole
400 feet of wiring in plastic
sheaths.
Lakeside is a small city
15 miles north of Coos Bay.
Copper thieves cut
phone service in
Lakeside
LAKESIDE (AP) — The
Coos County Sheriff’s
Office says copper thieves
caused more than 500
residents to lose landline-
telephone service over the
weekend.
Lakeside residents with
a 759 landline prefix were
unable to dial 911 or make
long distance phone calls on
Saturday, leading the sheriff’s
office to place a dispatcher at
Lakeside Library.
The World newspaper
reports the dispatcher
forwarded emergency calls
to the Coquille dispatch
center until service was
restored the following day.
Investigators found
that thieves near Lakeside
Cemetery put a ladder near a
utility pole, then climbed up
and cut the lines.
Once the lines were on
Trump supporter’s
car damaged at
Eugene protest
EUGENE (AP) — A
Eugene man says his vehicle
was vandalized when he
ran into an anti-President
Donald Trump rally why
flying a Trump flag on his
SUV.
Cameron Sparhawk,
23, was headed home
on Sunday when he ran
into protesters marching
the wrong way along the
street, The Register-Guard
reported. Some members of
the group ripped his Trump
flag from the vehicle and
burned it. The protesters
also punctured a tire on his
vehicle and pounded on the
hood of his car.
confer permanent resident status
in the United States, typically due
to marriage or some other family
connection — may want to avoid
traveling outside the country for
now.
Some green card holders were
detained at international airports
over the weekend when they tried
to return to the United States,
according to news reports.
“If somebody has a sick family
member (in a foreign country),
they may have to weigh being with
the loved one with the uncertainty
of getting back in (to the United
States),” Galvin said.
Closely tracked
Students and scholars here on
non-immigrant visas in the United
States are closely tracked by the
U.S. Department of Homeland
Security database called Student
and Exchange Visitor Information
System, or SEVIS.
Universities and colleges that
enroll international students must
submit quarterly reports with the
students’ enrollment status, whether
the students withdraw or are
suspended, drop from full course
loads, take off- campus jobs, change
majors, delay completion dates,
transfer colleges or graduate.
Faculty who are concerned
about their international students
and colleagues are calling the
Sparhawk said the
marchers were walking the
wrong way down the street.
He said he wasn’t going to
change his path just for the
protesters.
“I was not looking to start
anything, and I was not in
the wrong,” Sparhawk said.
Sparhawk said he decided
to fly the Trump flag from
his SUV after hearing
about planned protests
in opposition of Trump’s
executive order imposing
a temporary travel ban on
citizens from seven Muslim-
majority countries were
happening at airports across
the country.
“I don’t want everyone to
think Eugene is a completely
liberal community. I want
people to know that some of
us are on the other side of
the spectrum,” he said.
Eugene Police Chief Pete
Kerns said investigators
are reviewing video of
the incident in hopes of
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Cloudy, some
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Cloudy with a
shower
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toward the Cascades.
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with fl urries; breezy across the north.
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Dreiling and 32 other UO faculty
members — as well as 13 OSU
faculty members — joined 7,000
faculty members nationally on a
petition opposing the Trump exec-
utive orders on visas and refugees.
The list included 40 Nobel prize
laureates and 226 members of the
National Academies of Sciences,
Engineering and Arts.
“The unethical and discrimi-
natory treatment of law-abiding,
hard- working, and well-integrated
identifying people who
could face charges for their
involvement.
The incident occurred
more than two hours after
about 1,000 people began
gathering outside the U.S.
Courthouse in Eugene
to rally against Trump’s
executive order.
Plans for that rally did
not include a march, Kerns
said. However, about
150 protesters broke off
from the main group and
started marching through
downtown, blocking traffic.
Video captured by
witnesses of the incident
show marchers surrounding
Sparhawk’s SUV and
appearing to push it
backward. Another video
shows Sparhawk getting
angrily out of his car after
protesters punched his
windows.
“I said things I shouldn’t
have in the heat of the
moment,” he said. “That
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immigrants fundamentally contra-
venes the founding principles of the
United States,” the petition says.
Drew Williams, president of the
UO Muslim Student Association,
said the executive orders are “very
serious” for many UO students.
Haytham Abu Adel, a student
member of the group, left his family
in Yemen to study in Eugene.
“He’s really not able to go
home,” Williams said. “And if he
does go home, he can’t come back
— but he can’t go home because
Yemen is a war zone. The city he’s
from is being bombed by Saudi
Arabia right now. There’s nowhere
he can go.”
But the changes coming out
of Washington are also troubling
to Muslim-Americans, such as
Williams. “We all heard the rhetoric
on the campaign trail, but to see it
in action is hard hitting and very
discomforting,” he said.
The hastily organized rally in
support of immigrants at the U.S.
District Courthouse on Sunday
— where 1,000 Eugene residents
waved signs and pledged their
support — meant a lot to interna-
tional students, Williams said.
“It does help when you see it’s
not like the whole country hates
you. It’s not a monolithic we-want-
you-out kind of thing. It makes
you feel more comfortable and
welcome,” he said.
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international office for clarity on the
federal policy changes.
Abe Schafermeyer, director
of UO International Student and
Scholar Services, said his email
inbox has filled over the past 72
hours by anxious students.
“Their parents cannot attend
their graduation ceremonies. They
cannot go to a funeral of a family
member back home. This is real.”
The long-standing non-immi-
grant visa system “has worked and
kept us safe and brought in excel-
lent colleagues, scholars, students
and visitors for generations,”
said Michael Dreiling, president
of United Academics and a UO
sociology professor.
“Everything is happening so
quickly. Our friends and colleagues
and family are impacted by this
executive order,” he said.
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