Another preventable tragedy, on rights, disrupted lives, & on economic & societal terms:
">1.1M foreign students come to the US each year to study
--> they contributed >$43B to the US economy in foreign currency balances
--> students who came to the U.S. to study founded 55% of America’s 582 start-up companies worth at least $1B."
-J Allen
#Universities #Colleges #Trump #RIghts #Immigration #Racism #Economy #Trumpcession #USPol
https://newrepublic.com/article/193206/trump-war-higher-education-demands-aggressive-response
The New Republic · Trump’s Atrocious War on Higher Ed Demands an Aggressive ResponseAmerica’s colleges and universities enrich everyone in ways that aren’t often acknowledged. It’s high time to remind Americans of them.
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) will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came,”... though he did not specify an enforcement mechanism."
