UC Berkeley yields to ICE threat, suspends course credit work applications for International Students
In a step likely to discourage the enrollment of international students, the Berkeley International Office, or BIO, announced that it is temporarily suspending all applications for Course Credit Curricular Practical Training, which allows international students to work in paid off-campus internships.
"The suspension follows an Aug. 12 memo from ICE warning all Student and Exchange Visitor Program-certified universities — nearly all American colleges — that officials who improperly authorize Curricular Practical Training, or CPT, could face personal liability. ICE threatened to remove universities’ abilities to enroll international students if they did not comply."
