🗞️ Story file #202
DHS proposes $70,000 fee for foreign students to work in US
Oct 7, 5 PM ET to Oct 9, 12 PM ET
- 14outlets carried it
- 🫏3 · 3 · 8🐘left · center · right
- 1.8 dayson the front pages
- 13front pages at once, at its peak
- 9 minof TV captions
- 1radio newscast
👣 How this story traveled: from the front pages that broke it, out through TV, radio and the shows, into what people retold and what fact-checkers examined, and on into the saga it is part of. Everything here is matched to the story by our tools, so a link can be wrong; the trackers' pages say how each is made.
- Oct 7, 5 PM ETfirst on a front page: Just the News
- Oct 7, 7 PM ETfirst on the radio: NPR News Now
- Oct 8, 8 AM ETpeak: on 13 front pages
- Oct 8, 10 AM ETfirst on TV: Fox News
📰 Spread
the front pages that ran it, hour by hour
💬 quoted: “Pipeline for Cheap Foreign Labor”
🗣️ only one side says: 🫏 trump administration proposes 🐘 dhs proposes 🐘 foreign students 🐘 proposes massive
✏️ 2 outlets ran more than one headline on it (reworded, or a follow-up)
- Newsmax (2 wordings): “WH Proposes $70K Fee for Intl Students to Work in US” → “DHS Fee Targets 'Pipeline for Cheap Foreign Labor'”
- Townhall (3 wordings): “DHS Proposes New Rule to Provide Opportunities for American Students Jeff Charles” → “DHS DHS Proposes New Rule to Provide Opportunities for American Students Jeff Charles”
Every outlet's first headline (14), left to right by AllSides rating
Business Insider
US colleges could face a $70,000 fee for international students to work after graduation Oct 8, 2 AM ET
Los Angeles Times
Trump administration proposes a $70,000 fee for international students to work in the U.S. Oct 7, 1 PM ET
Time
Trump Administration Proposes $70K Fee for International Students to Work in U.S. Oct 8, 8 AM ET
Chicago Tribune
Trump administration proposes a $70,000 fee for international students to work in the US Oct 7, 12 PM ET
Newsweek
Trump Admin Proposes $70,000 Fee for Foreign Graduates to Work in US Oct 7, 11 AM ET
Reuters
Trump administration plans to charge international students $70,000 for work authorization Oct 7, 4 PM ET
Just the News
DHS floats $70K fee for international student work program Oct 7, 5 PM ET
The Epoch Times
DHS Proposes $70,000 Fee for Foreign Students to Work in the US Oct 7, 9 PM ET
The Washington Times
DHS proposes massive new fees for foreign students who want to work Oct 7, 5 PM ET
IJR
DHS Proposes $70,000 Fees for Foreign Student Work Oct 7, 3 PM ET
New York Post
DHS proposes massive $70K fee for foreign students seeking work authorization Oct 8, 6 AM ET
Newsmax
WH Proposes $70K Fee for Intl Students to Work in US Oct 7, 6 PM ET
The National Pulse
Americans First: Why Trump Wants Foreign Students to Pay $70,000 to Work in the U.S. Oct 9, 11 AM ET
Townhall
DHS Proposes New Rule to Provide Opportunities for American Students Jeff Charles Oct 7, 7 PM ET
📡 Broadcast
TV, radio, and the shows that talked about it
📺 On TV
- VANCE: VISA PROGRAM IS RIFE WITH FRAUD Fox News, 2 min
- NOW: VP VANCE SPEAKS ON VISA FRAUD CRACKDOWN Fox News, 2 min
- VANCE: 9 UNIVERSITIES WARRANT INVESTIGATIONS INTO THEIR J-1 VISA USE Fox News, 59 s
- NOW TRUMP ADMIN UPDATES ON FRAUD CRACKDOWN Fox News, 42 s
- NOW ADMIN GIVES UPDATE ON VISA FRAUD CRACKDOWN Fox News, 42 s
- Trump administration investigating international student visas BBC News, 41 s
- VANCE ON WARPATH: TIME TO END THE H-1B SCAM Fox News, 41 s
- IT'S TIME: MR. PRESIDENT, END H-1B VISAS Fox News, 38 s
📻 On the radio
- NPR News Now, Oct 7, 7:10 PM ET: story 3 of 4
🧶 Retelling
what people online made of it
🦗 Nobody's retelling it online yet, as far as the daily reports of the last week can tell.
🗣️ names in it: Donald Trump International Students Foreign Graduates Trump Administration
🔎 Checking
what the fact-checkers looked into
🧐 No fact-checker has taken it on yet.
🧵 Persistence
the running story it belongs to
🌱 A story of its own so far: no saga yet.