Revocations

What we feared would happen has happened: some of our university's international students have had their visas revoked. As was sadly predictable from this administration slovenly as well as cruel, they weren't even notified! In the face of the administration's capriciousness, universities now need to check the status of all student visas daily, and it was through such a check that these unannounced and unexplained revocations were discovered. The only upside to our having to be the ones to let the affected students know is that we could immediately make them aware of support and resources, though there is limited recourse in the face of these exercises of arbitrary power.

Similar discoveries are being made at universities across the country. Perhaps it will provide an occasion for leadership to unite in public defense of education and of our students in the face of these attacks. The need for a strong response to these attacks on student visa status provided a pretext for our president to pronounce publicly things he's been saying more discreetly behind closed doors for a long time.