Bunker Hill Neighborhood Faculty is canceling its summer season research overseas packages in response to Trump administration immigration insurance policies, WBUR reported.
“Our first precedence in any Examine Overseas expertise is the protection of our college students and workers,” learn a press release from the group school to WBUR. “With the modifications in nationwide immigration coverage and enforcement which have emerged over the past a number of weeks, together with the prospect of renewed journey restrictions, the Faculty will redirect this 12 months’s exploration and studying to U.S.-based websites.”
The group school deliberate to ship about 60 college students to Costa Rica, Ghana, Japan, Kenya and Panama for two-week instructional packages between Could 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, advised WBUR that school leaders have been involved for worldwide college students who deliberate to go on these journeys. Worldwide college students make up 7 p.c of the faculty’s scholar physique.
“The college was simply very apprehensive in regards to the in all probability distant, however nonetheless potential chance that we might go away and are available again, and a scholar could not come again into the nation,” Benjamin advised the information outlet.
