The ICE diktat to expel international students who are in online only colleges spells out the Trump government’s insidious attempts to open universities, even at the cost of making more people sick and die.
For that they are using the financial pressure of international students, and if universities don’t capitulate, well, then, their target has always been legal immigrants, specially Indians, and this is a win win for Trump and Bannon and Miller.
If I was the student I was in 99, I would definitely not consider US as a place to do my higher studies. As a country, the US under Trump, who is democratically elected, has shown institutional xenophobia to int. students and legal immigrants of a kind that is unprecedented.
With their handling of Covid19, America has shown that it’s a country that can’t take care of its own. America has tried to compensate for its overall impotence by using the full extent of its “power” on the weakest: legal immigrants & international students.
The US was never particularly friendly towards international students and tech workers from other countries, but with Trump, it has crossed a line, of arrogant capriciousness, and Trump is hoping this will consolidate his base in time for November.
