behind-closed-doors:-how-trump-and-miller-are-rewriting-us-higher-education-to-shut-out-international-students

Through coercive legal settlements and immigration policy shifts, the Trump administration—spearheaded by Stephen Miller—is compelling U.S. universities to scale back international student enrollment. A recent agreement with Columbia University signals a strategic push to diminish America’s academic globalism. Despite economic and demographic evidence favoring international education, ideology now threatens to override logic, innovation, and institutional autonomy.