Bunker Hill Group School is canceling its summer time examine overseas packages in response to Trump administration immigration insurance policies, WBUR reported.
“Our first precedence in any Research Overseas expertise is the security of our college students and employees,” learn an announcement from the neighborhood faculty to WBUR. “With the adjustments in nationwide immigration coverage and enforcement which have emerged during the last a number of weeks, together with the prospect of renewed journey restrictions, the School will redirect this 12 months’s exploration and studying to U.S.-based websites.”
The neighborhood faculty deliberate to ship about 60 college students to Costa Rica, Ghana, Japan, Kenya and Panama for two-week instructional packages between Might and July. The choice to cancel the journeys got here after information experiences that the Trump administration is contemplating a journey ban on dozens of nations.
Biology professor Scott Benjamin, who’s led the Costa Rica journey since 2002, instructed WBUR that faculty leaders have been involved for worldwide college students who deliberate to go on these journeys. Worldwide college students make up 7 % of the faculty’s scholar physique.
“The varsity was simply very frightened concerning the most likely distant, however nonetheless potential risk that we might go away and are available again, and a scholar could not come again into the nation,” Benjamin instructed the information outlet.
