Student-Visa Concerns in Britain Heightened by Antiterrorism Raids

UK“Almost all of the 12 men arrested in a major antiterrorism operation in Britain on Wednesday were Pakistani nationals on student visas, British news media reported. British police conducted raids on targets in several cities in an operation that had been hastily moved up after the country’s top antiterrorism officer was photographed going into a Downing Street briefing carrying a document marked ‘Secret,’ with details of the operation visible to photographers’ high-powered lenses. One of the raids was at Liverpool John Moores University …” (more)

[Aisha Labi, Chronicle of Higher Education, 10 April]

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