The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/tag/trump-administration/)
Cornell University is filing their second lawsuit against Trump’s administration this year, over their recent decision restrict H-1B visas — restrictions which would apply to a portion of international students.
Prof. Stephen Yale-Loehr B.A. ’77, J.D. ’81, law, discussed the current administration’s rising restrictions against immigration and offered solutions to existing problems.
The Trump administration rescinded controversial ICE guidance to strip student visas from international students taking a full online course load.
Cornell’s tuition rates will increase this upcoming fall semester, despite financial constraints placed on students during COVID-19.
For over 100 years, industrial activities inflicting harm to various bird species were regulated by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918. In recent months, President Donald Trump’s administration has taken steps to overrule this legislation so that companies would no longer be held liable for unintentionally harming birds — which could potentially have harmful implications for the environment.
“The US should be leading the way for the rest of the world but the administration in Washington is taking us in the opposite direction. It’s an affront to science and to common sense,” said Prof. Michael Hoffmann, entomology, is the Executive Director of the Cornell Institute for Climate Smart Solutions.
Most trade decisions have hidden or understated effects, especially in the short-term. The litany of free trade agreements signed beginning in the 1970s meant very little to voters until recently, when the failure of free trade deals to re-distribute the wealth from international trade flows came to a tipping point. The dual economic threats of offshoring manufacturing jobs to countries with cheaper labor and lack of trade adjustment policies that compensate the losers of free trade resulted in voters’ willingness to support economic nationalism and protectionism. All of this, combined with high executive power over import restrictions and international trade, more generally have allowed President Trump to do what he does best: upset the international order while vaguely fulfilling promises to his base. Tariffs can essentially be viewed as an import tax.
The demonstration mirrored protests in over 1,000 U.S. cities, which converged on Thursday at 5 p.m. to call for the protection of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation of Trump-Russia ties.
The rally is in response to a memo obtained by the New York Times in which the Trump administration said it is working to establish a legal definition of sex under Title IX such that gender is “on a biological basis that is clear, grounded in science, objective and administrable.”
The event encouraged students to call representatives despite the Supreme Court’s Feb. 26th decision to uphold an injunction on Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival suspension while a lower court takes up the case.