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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Anton F Van Der Ven)
Wed Jan 30 23:44:33 2002
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To: julias@MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 23:42:39 -0500
From: Anton F Van Der Ven <avdv@MIT.EDU>
Subject:Subject: URGENT! Visa ban - MIT students at risk
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Dear MIT community member,
We are asking for your support in a very urgent matter.
Under legislation currently being considered in the Senate
(Bill S.1749), there would be a
COMPLETE BAN ON STUDENT AND RESEARCH VISAS
for anyone from Iran, Cuba, Syria, or Sudan.
The strength of MIT is that students and researchers from
many diverse countries come here to work together.
Iranians, Cubans, Syrians, and Sudanese contribute to MIT as
students, researchers, and faculty. Moreover, the actions of
a government should not be an excuse to prevent all its citizens
from studying in the United States.
PLEASE SIGN THE PETITION to President Vest, asking him to make
a strong statement against the visa ban. His statement last year
against a blanket 6 month moratorium on student visas prevented
the moratorium!
The petition can be found at:
http://web.mit.edu/justice/studentvisa/
Please forward this to others at MIT! These people are our
teachers, colleagues, and friends, and we must not allow them
to be removed from our midst.
Thanks!
The members of the MIT Social Justice Cooperative
and Middle Eastern Club at MIT
