MIT is warning international students that federal immigration officials may visit their work sites to verify that their employment is directly related to their studies.
The visits are carried out by the department's Immigration and Customs Enforcement unit and are meant to verify that students are engaged in relevant “work-based learning experiences” and that employers have the resources necessary to supervise them, according to the department's website.The Trump administration has placed foreign researchers under sharper scrutiny as it tries to curb intellectual property theft by China and other governments.
In 2018, Chinese national Weiqiang Zhang was sentenced to 10 years in prison for conspiring to steal proprietary rice seeds developed in the U.S. and giving them to visitors from China. He previously received a doctorate at Louisiana State University. Last June, MIT President L. Rafael Reif warned that the fight against espionage threatened to create a “toxic atmosphere of unfounded suspicion and fear." He said some Chinese students and researchers on campus reported feeling “unfairly scrutinized, stigmatized and on edge" because of their Chinese ethnicity.
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