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...Kevin Casey, Harvard’s senior director of federal and state relations, noted that student visas account for less than 2 percent of all visas issued. A moratorium on issuing student visas, while prohibiting talented scholars from coming to the country, would likely not inhibit the flow of terrorists into the country, he said...
...Casey said that while many of the specifics to overhaul visa laws that are contained in Feinstein’s bill have been proposed in the past, particularly after the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the proposal to completely stop the flow of students into the U.S. was completely...
...have to be concerned of moving too fast,” Casey said...
Harvard has already begun efforts to lobby against Feinstein’s moratorium proposal. Casey said that so far the University is primarily working through the American Council on Education (ACE), a broad-based Washington organization which lobbies on behalf of educational interests. Harvard has also had discussions with the office of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy ’54-’56 (D-Mass.) on the University’s opposition to the proposal. Kennedy serves as the chair of the Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on immigration...
...sent a letter to university presidents last Friday urging them to personally contact their senators to argue against Feinstein’s proposal. However, Casey said that Harvard’s top administrators have not yet been directly involved in the efforts to defeat the moratorium—although they may take action after the proposals become more concrete...