Raising their voices: Protesters rallied against the Trump administration terminating the visa of a Kennesaw State University student last month. — The Atlanta Journal-Constitution/TNS
HERE’S yet another way in which US President Donald Trump is making America neither Great Again nor strong, but weaker, and for a long time to come: He’s sabotaging the US-centred trans-national intellectual and personal networks that have amplified American power by breaking the pipeline of future leaders of foreign countries who were educated and shaped in the US.
His administration is doing that by expelling, harassing, or intimi-dating foreigners at US univer-sities. It revoked the visas of more than 1,400 international students on American campuses. In some cases, the government alleged that students were pro-Palestinian protesters, in others that they committed “crimes”, even if those turned out to be unpaid parking tickets or were even non-existent.
