Gaurav Sabnis | Source | Assistant Professor at School of Business at Stevens Institute of Technology

This decision completely upends decades-old realities. Tens of thousands of students will just have to up and leave. The financial hit will be the first big blow. The lack of coherence or stability about immigration norms will deter millions of future international students, Indian or otherwise, from ever even considering the USA for higher education. Trump and ICE are systematically taking a hatchet to the American university system, cruelly cashing in on covid to push their conservative agenda. Even after 9/11 with national security concerns and emotions running high, such steps were never taken. Because such steps have no real practical upside. No other administration before this, Republican or Democrat, has been this explicitly anti-immigration.