I feel for students affected by this push to drive non-citizens out. The regulation by #ICE: 1) increases stress among the student population, 2) penalizes universities who are doing the right decision in terms of reducing infections and deaths...

3) pushes university administrators to comply with the pressure to reopen campuses despite the increasing spread of infections, 4) pushes students to transfer to schools that will be reopening, thereby endangering their health & further complicating their enrolment records...

5) ignores conditions of global instability caused by the pandemic that are prohibitive to the mobility of students. Overall, this move shows the current admin's neglect of schools as a "safe zone." It is prepared to strike at bastions of democracy.

International students bring not only experience & intellectual resources to the US. In AY2018-2019, they brought $41 billion to the US which supported 458,290 jobs. The blanket removal of int'l students is also an assault to the US economy. More at: https://www.nafsa.org/policy-and-advocacy/policy-resources/nafsa-international-student-economic-value-tool-v2

International students who are receiving scholarships from US universities are not freeloaders. International graduate students' labors are also commodified as the US universities' employment system adjunctifies. Undergrads may also take parttime jobs in an unfair wage system.

Int'lstudents do not "steal" knowledge from the US & then return home. They may enrich & diversify conversations in classrooms. Those coming from the Global South may have limited choices back home because of the global inequality introduced by the West in the first place.

The US has also historically benefitted from international students. The US, when it colonized the Philippines, set up the Pensionado Act of 1903. This included sending Filipinos to train as nurses in the US. US-trained Filipino nurses then returned to the Philippines and...

set up nursing schools all over the Philippines. That you are seeing so many Filipino nurses working on the frontlines of COVID-19 in the US and around the world is partly due to this colonial history.