What Trump Is Doing to International Students Is Just Plain Evil

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onal students. This will be the case even if the health risk is high.It’s bad immigration policy. Which jobs are these students taking away exactly? What social safety programs are they abusing? These are precisely the visitors the country should want; those who inject a lot of money into the economy in the form of travel, tuition and room and board.It’s bad education policy. The huge sums of money international students pour into higher education help pay for research, salaries and facilities that benefit the whole educational community. Not to mention the fact that international students add dynamism, talents and perspectives that enrich the education process.It’s bad economic policy. International students pay rent and spend on food, clothing, cars, the movies, electronics, textbooks and, yes, beer. Such spending actually creates jobs and helps the local and national economy.So, if the plan hurts the country and thousands of people on so many levels, why would it even be proposed?The reason behind it is alarmingly dark: the President is appealing to a segment of his base. In particular, he’s speaking to extreme anti-immigrant sentiment among voters who see all immigrants as bad — whether they’re criminals or students, rapists or the future inventors of a vaccine against a deadly virus.<p id="d6ae

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">Trump wants the votes, at any cost.Trump has been priming Americans for outrageous actions such as this one with his dehumanizing rhetoric on immigrants, and his use of words such as “animals,” “rapists” and “criminals” to refer to them.Trump’s plan is not just misguided, it’s also cruel.The directive is obviously not aimed at keeping bad immigrants out. For the love of God, the vast majority of individuals with students visas are teens and young adults whose families are investing huge sums of money in education in the US.I was once such a teenager, and I can imagine the enormous stress international students must be experiencing. Trump’s plan is not just misguided, it’s also cruel.I’m an immigrant and naturalized US citizen. I have seen my country of birth destroyed by a few evil people and extreme left-wing ideology. I don’t want to see my adopted home, which I love profoundly, destroyed by an evil man and extreme right-wing ideology.I strive to debate political issues and policies based on sound arguments and not simply label them good or evil. This is an exception. Uncomfortable as it makes me to write this on a public platform, the nature of the policy compels me to do so. I pray the resistance and legal lawsuits it has already begun to face will crush it.</article></body>

The plan’s calculated to get votes for Trump; its effects would be negative for everyone else

The Trump administration wants international students whose fall semester coursework is 100% online to either leave the country or, if currently outside the US, not to come back. (The directive can be found here: ICE’s website.)

Why would Trump propose messing up with international students' legal status during the pandemic?

Such a move makes no sense.

It's bad health policy. It would, if anything, contribute to further spread of COVID-19, especially where the viurs is wreaking the worst havoc. Instead of basing their course offerings on the specific stage of the pandemic in the region, universities will need to scramble to offer in-person classes in order to keep their international students. This will be the case even if the health risk is high.

It’s bad immigration policy. Which jobs are these students taking away exactly? What social safety programs are they abusing? These are precisely the visitors the country should want; those who inject a lot of money into the economy in the form of travel, tuition and room and board.

It’s bad education policy. The huge sums of money international students pour into higher education help pay for research, salaries and facilities that benefit the whole educational community. Not to mention the fact that international students add dynamism, talents and perspectives that enrich the education process.

It’s bad economic policy. International students pay rent and spend on food, clothing, cars, the movies, electronics, textbooks and, yes, beer. Such spending actually creates jobs and helps the local and national economy.

So, if the plan hurts the country and thousands of people on so many levels, why would it even be proposed?

The reason behind it is alarmingly dark: the President is appealing to a segment of his base. In particular, he’s speaking to extreme anti-immigrant sentiment among voters who see all immigrants as bad — whether they’re criminals or students, rapists or the future inventors of a vaccine against a deadly virus.

Trump wants the votes, at any cost.

Trump has been priming Americans for outrageous actions such as this one with his dehumanizing rhetoric on immigrants, and his use of words such as “animals,” “rapists” and “criminals” to refer to them.

Trump’s plan is not just misguided, it’s also cruel.

The directive is obviously not aimed at keeping bad immigrants out. For the love of God, the vast majority of individuals with students visas are teens and young adults whose families are investing huge sums of money in education in the US.

I was once such a teenager, and I can imagine the enormous stress international students must be experiencing. Trump’s plan is not just misguided, it’s also cruel.

I’m an immigrant and naturalized US citizen. I have seen my country of birth destroyed by a few evil people and extreme left-wing ideology. I don’t want to see my adopted home, which I love profoundly, destroyed by an evil man and extreme right-wing ideology.

I strive to debate political issues and policies based on sound arguments and not simply label them good or evil. This is an exception. Uncomfortable as it makes me to write this on a public platform, the nature of the policy compels me to do so. I pray the resistance and legal lawsuits it has already begun to face will crush it.