Costly Halt: Editorial on Trump’s Witch-hunt against International Students in American Universities
29 May 2025 | The Telegraph
Are the prospects of university education in the United States of America for global students, including a sizeable segment from India, getting dimmer? An order from the Donald Trump administration, which seeks to halt visa interviews of new students as it considers the possibility of foreign students undergoing a vetting of their social media profiles as part of their applications to enrol in an American university, has heightened anxieties. A cable signed by the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, the Politico reported, has apparently asked American embassies and consular offices to stop the process of scheduling interviews; this is the latest thrust in a wider assault by Mr Trump’s government on American universities, especially on Harvard, and the country’s much-fêted higher education system with anti-semitism and national security being used as the proverbial fig-leaf…