Emily Piper-Vallillo

2 weeks ago | wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo

A federal judge in Boston will hear arguments at the end of July in the lawsuit Harvard brought against the Trump administration. The nation’s oldest university is suing to halt the federal government's freeze of more than $2 billion in grants and contracts. In a packed Boston courtroom on Monday morning, U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs agreed to an expedited schedule, slating oral arguments for July 21.

3 weeks ago | wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo

When a friend called earlier this month to say her visa had been revoked, a recent Massachusetts university graduate took it lightly at first. “I thought, why would I get anything like that?" she recalled. "I've never done anything wrong.”But she stopped cooking dinner to check. She opened her laptop and found an email from her consulate that said the U.S. Department of State had revoked her visa, too. Another email said her authorization to work in the United States was canceled.

4 weeks ago | wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo

An MIT student has sued the federal government over its abrupt termination of her international student record in a federal database managed by the Department of Homeland Security. The student, an MIT senior set to graduate in May, learned her record in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System, or SEVIS, was abruptly deleted in early April, putting her at risk of detainment by immigration enforcement agents.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo |Carrie Jung

A number of international students at private universities across Greater Boston and in the University of Massachusetts system have had their visas revoked in recent days. Tufts University, Harvard University, UMass, Boston University, Emerson College, Northeastern University and Berklee College of Music all say that they have discovered student visas were cancelled in the last few days. It is not immediately clear why the visas were terminated.

1 month ago | wbur.org | Emily Piper-Vallillo

Fatou Jallow remembers hearing her grandmother tell stories about the many funerals she attended in Gambia. Far too often, people in her country died of treatable illnesses because they lacked access to medical care. “I thought that was really jarring,” Jallow said. “In America, as a child, that's not something you really hear [happening].”Fatou Jallow, a Payne fellow at the Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health.