Behind closed doors: How Trump and Miller are rewriting US higher education to shut out international students

Through coercive legal settlements and immigration policy shifts, the Trump administration—spearheaded by Stephen Miller—is compelling U.S. universities to scale back international student enrollment. A recent agreement with Columbia University signals a strategic push to diminish America's academic globalism. Despite economic and demographic evidence favoring international education, ideology now threatens to override logic, innovation, and institutional autonomy.