International applications are falling. Students are choosing Canada, the UK, Australia. Not because they want to, but because they no longer trust us.
If we lock them out, we don’t just lose students. We lose founders. We lose scientists. We lose the next DuPont, the next Google, the next Chobani.
“You can’t build a future while closing the door on the people who build it.”
One Harvard senior from Tanzania put it simply: “I came here to become part of America. I didn’t expect to be erased from it.”
She’s a computer science major. She was supposed to start a fintech job in California. She’s now interviewing in Toronto.
That’s the real danger. Not just the students who leave.
But the future that never arrives.