Trump Targets California International Students and Higher Ed

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Politics, News, News Commentary

4.6 • 656 Ratings

🗓️ 23 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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More than a thousand international college students – scores of them in California – have had their visas terminated without explanation under new Trump administration policies. We’ll talk about what the administration’s targeting of international students and threatened withdrawals of federal funding mean for California students and schools, and how Universities and colleges are responding. Guests: Molly Gibbs, Bay Area News Group education reporter, East Bay Times Doug Belkins, higher education and national news reporter, The Wall Street Journal Aarya Mukherjee, deputy news editor, The Daily Californian Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:50.8	The Trump administration is targeting universities in a variety of ways for a variety of reasons.
0:56.5	The administration has gone after different funding sources, launched investigations, and revoked
1:01.3	the visas of international students. Add it all up, and it's an unprecedented assault
1:07.1	on an educational system that has been the envy of the world for decades.
1:11.5	We'll talk about what's behind the attacks, the impact that they're having on universities
1:15.8	here in California, and how students and administrators are responding.
1:20.6	It's all coming up next right after this news. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. More than a thousand international college student.
1:43.6	Scores of them in California have had their visas terminated without explanation under new Trump administration policies.
1:50.0	These young people have come from all over the world to our university system.
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