Most college students are on their winter break right now, gathering with family and friends at home.

But some, who live outside the United States, may return to campus early this holiday season after a number of U.S. universities and colleges are advising them that the incoming Trump administration may make it more difficult for them to return later.

Lisa Desjardin explains.

The universities are considering two factors that President-elect Trump campaigned on again

closing the U.S. to citizens of some Muslim-majority countries, and that his 2017 travel ban

came during his first week, sparking a logistics

nightmare for some students and faculty trying to re-enter the country then. More than a dozen

universities, including Harvard, Cornell, University of Massachusetts, and the University of Southern

California are now warning students to return before January 20th.

That's to say, before the first week of Trump's new term.

Ted Mitchell is the president of the American Council on Education,

which represents more than 1,600 colleges and universities.

I think that there is expectation we share it,

that there will be some kind of travel ban early in the

administration, maybe as early as the first week through executive order. And campuses are

suggesting that students return early so that they won't be wrapped up either in the travel ban

specifically or in just the general chaos that we saw

that happened the last time we had travel bans. For more, I'm joined by Dan Berger,

immigration attorney and academic fellow at Cornell Law School. Dan, President Trump has,

in fact, said that he is thinking of bringing back a travel ban.

He has named a few Muslim majority countries.

But other than that, we don't have really details or anything on timing or how much of a priority this is.

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