More than 1 million international students attend colleges across the United States each year, bringing billions of dollars to the American economy and bolstering the nation’s science and technology sectors. Many of them now find themselves in the crosshairs of the Trump administration’s battle to exert control over some of the nation’s elite universities.
Those students have been a critical part of U.S. institutions of higher education for decades, contributing to the nation’s economy and research, experts say.
