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by whoisjuan 2176 days ago
This reads like "open your campuses or go fuck yourself". International students make up 6% of all the students in the US with certain institutions probably averaging very large numbers of international students.

This is the sad current state of affairs in this country. A pandemic became a political weapon.

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At Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, currently ranked the third best business school in the country, 32% of students are international.

https://www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/programs/full-time-mba/...

I don't see anything to be gained from this call other than solidifying the current administration political stance. Unless I'm missing something, this seems to be an incredibly destructive decision creates little to no benefits to the American society... For instance, that "6% of all students" alone contributes a great deal to the US economy:

> According to the Commerce Department, international students contributed $45 billion to the U.S. economy in 2018.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/506072-ice-tells...