The higher-education-industrial complex is going to scream bloody murder.
They have already passed the point of peak debt and money they can squeeze from American students and government to maintain their bloated bureaucracies.
Coronavirus has started their slide down
So removing even part of that large group of 300K Chinese students, who usually pay full tuition, is going to hurt them in the pocketbook.
In 2017-2018 there were 12,000 Iranian students in this country. How smart is that? I guarantee they weren’t majority liberal arts & humanities majors.