INSIGHT: Reversal on Trump’s Student Visa Curbs Exposes Flawed Policy Efforts

For commentary on the Trump administration’s aborted attempts to restrict student visas in the pandemic, see Ediberto Roman and Carrie Rosenbaum‘s commentary (“INSIGHT: Reversal on Trump’s Student Visa Curbs Exposes Flawed Policy Efforts”).  The punch line:

“President Trump has long railed against `liberal’ academic institutions and the attempted ban coincided with his Covid-19 agenda. In the end, the settlement avoided further waste of taxpayer dollars and perhaps undermined what some also saw as a re-election strategy and a means of penalizing universities for deciding not to recommence in-person classes this fall by robbing them of critical tuition and fees. Yet again, the way this administration sought to implement its goals was fatally flawed.”

KJ