ICE’s international student ban is a politicized pandemic response that hurts America | Bhaskar Chakravorti in NBC News

The U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has outraged and blindsided college students, faculty, and immigration advocates across the country after announcing a new order that bans international students from returning or remaining in the United States this Fall if their classes are taught in remote models.

Bhaskar Chakravorti, Dean of Global Business at The Fletcher School, expands on this issue in his latest article in NBC News:

International students, of course, have been in the administration’s crosshairs since the president took office, targeted by everything from the attempts to impose a blanket ban on visas from Muslim countries, to proposed elimination or reductions of certain scholarly visas, to individual deportation orders imposed over a judge’s orders. Now they are being used once again by the Trump administration — this time, to strong arm schools and universities to re-open despite the potential risks to students, faculty and staff.

Bhaskar Chakravorti, NBC News