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Trump’s Tactics Mean Many International Students Won’t Make It to Campus
The New York Times ^ | Aug. 20, 2025 Updated 10:11 a.m. ET | Anemona Hartocollis

Posted on 08/20/2025 3:37:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

Students from some countries won’t make it to class this fall because of President Trump’s travel ban. Others can’t get visa appointments. Some are simply scared. Universities are panicking.

Many Iranians are not going to American universities this fall. Students from Afghanistan are having trouble getting to campus.

Even students from China and India, the top two senders of international students to the United States, have been flummoxed by a maze of new obstacles the Trump administration has set up to slow or deter people entering the country from abroad.

Between the federal government’s heightened vetting of student visas and President Trump’s travel ban, the number of international students newly enrolled in American universities seems certain to drop — by a lot.

There were about a million international students studying in the United States a year ago, according to figures published by the State Department. Data on international student enrollment is not expected to be released until the fall. But higher education is already feeling the pain and deeply worried about the fallout.

Many schools have seen the number of international students grow in recent years. But a survey of over 500 colleges and universities by the Institute of International Education, a nonprofit which works with governments and others to promote international education, found that 35 percent of the schools experienced a dip in applications from abroad last spring, the most since the pandemic.

In China and India, there have been few visa appointments available for students in recent months, and sometimes none at all, according to the Association of International Educators, also known as NAFSA, a professional organization. If visa problems persist, new international student enrollment in American colleges could drop by 30 to 40 percent overall this fall, a loss of 150,000 students, according to the group’s analysis. Some...

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TOPICS: Education
KEYWORDS: education; foreign; ohnoanyway

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1 posted on 08/20/2025 3:37:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Cue Boo Hoo Girl.


2 posted on 08/20/2025 3:38:37 PM PDT by Texas Eagle ("Throw me to the wolves and I'll return leading the pack"- Donald J. Trump)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I voted for this.

L


3 posted on 08/20/2025 3:39:19 PM PDT by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Winning!


4 posted on 08/20/2025 3:39:28 PM PDT by ConservaTexan (February 6, 1911/June 14, 1944)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Too F’n Bad...


5 posted on 08/20/2025 3:40:00 PM PDT by wetgundog
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Gee… That’s a shame


6 posted on 08/20/2025 3:40:04 PM PDT by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.,)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

“Anemona Hartocollis “ Digging deep for those writers, eh NY Slime?


7 posted on 08/20/2025 3:41:07 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

EXCELLENT!

Starve the beasts!


8 posted on 08/20/2025 3:41:17 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Fungi

Looks like she’s either 70 years old, or about to be. (born 1955. Swiss.


9 posted on 08/20/2025 3:44:07 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They can go to the shithole diploma mills in their home countries.


10 posted on 08/20/2025 3:44:45 PM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

more winning


11 posted on 08/20/2025 3:45:07 PM PDT by RockyTx
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

And this is a priblem?


12 posted on 08/20/2025 3:46:27 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

More American kids, or fewer university professors. Win either way.


13 posted on 08/20/2025 3:46:56 PM PDT by bigbob (If thou doth eff around, thou wilt findeth out)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

YAY!!!


14 posted on 08/20/2025 3:48:59 PM PDT by goodnesswins (Democracy to Demo rats is stealing other peoples money for their use, no matter how idiotic)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They report this like it’s a bad thing....LOL


15 posted on 08/20/2025 3:49:12 PM PDT by lgjhn23 ("On the 8th day, Satan created the progressive liberal to destroy all the good that God created...")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

So what??? Maybe the schools could lower their prices for US Citizen students and spend a little of their enormous endowments? Maybe the professors could take a pay & benefits cut? Maybe they could fire many of the extremely worthless “administrators”? Maybe they could stop funding DEI and other WOKE BS administrators and programs? Maybe?


16 posted on 08/20/2025 3:50:35 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I wish I still drank beer so I could have one to cry in for the Universities.


17 posted on 08/20/2025 3:55:58 PM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

The NYT writes this as if we’ll all read and share their outrage.

“Oh noze... universities can’t supplant Americans with shitholians and Chinese communists.”


18 posted on 08/20/2025 3:56:35 PM PDT by AAABEST (That time Washington DC became a corrupted, existential threat to us all...)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

They are not international students. They are foreign students.


19 posted on 08/20/2025 3:57:10 PM PDT by TTFX
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

When the New York Satanic Times suffers, the world rejoices.

Schadenfreude!


20 posted on 08/20/2025 3:58:13 PM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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