Navid Yousefian was almost 8,000 miles away from the University of California, Santa Barbara campus when he heard the news. The PhD student had returned to his hometown of Tehran on a leave of absence from his research in the UCSB political sciences department. But on Friday, when Yousefian saw that Donald Trump had signed an executive order banning citizens of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen from entering the United States, he realized he might not make it back this year, or maybe at all.
“I think I lost a PhD degree today,” he wrote on Facebook, posting a screenshot of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee’s advisory for affected students to not leave the US, as they likely wouldn’t be let back in.
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