<story><title>MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-harvard-file-suit-against-new-ice-regulations-0708</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben7799</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s incredibly unfair for the the administration to target international students like this.&lt;p&gt;However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here.   They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.   International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate.   The higher the % of international students the school takes in the more money they take in.  If these schools had to replace international students with domestic ones (even if they could) they wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to get away with selecting only the highest paying students.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m from Boston, we have an incredibly high number of international students, and a lot of the interest in keeping them is about getting their money.&lt;p&gt;The Boston Globe estimates they are worth $3.6 billion dollars to the area... lots of money, lots of tuition, lots of apartment rentals, lots of bar &amp;amp; restaurant revenue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>PragmaticPulp</author><text>&amp;gt; However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here. They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.&lt;p&gt;It’s okay to have multiple motivations.&lt;p&gt;The fact that they have a monetary incentive doesn’t detract from the good of what they’re doing. In fact, that’s partially what enables these expensive lawsuits.&lt;p&gt;We shouldn’t try to downplay good actions just because money is also involved.</text></comment>
<story><title>MIT and Harvard file suit against new ICE regulations</title><url>http://news.mit.edu/2020/mit-and-harvard-file-suit-against-new-ice-regulations-0708</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>ben7799</author><text>It&amp;#x27;s incredibly unfair for the the administration to target international students like this.&lt;p&gt;However Harvard and MIT aren&amp;#x27;t all about caring about their international students here.   They are also thinking heavily about the money they might be losing.   International students usually pay a much higher effective tuition rate.   The higher the % of international students the school takes in the more money they take in.  If these schools had to replace international students with domestic ones (even if they could) they wouldn&amp;#x27;t be able to get away with selecting only the highest paying students.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;m from Boston, we have an incredibly high number of international students, and a lot of the interest in keeping them is about getting their money.&lt;p&gt;The Boston Globe estimates they are worth $3.6 billion dollars to the area... lots of money, lots of tuition, lots of apartment rentals, lots of bar &amp;amp; restaurant revenue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>vowelless</author><text>Yea but they are also afraid of loosing out on a generation of professors, post docs, academics, value generators, “job creators”.&lt;p&gt;It is very risky to cut out a generation of top students because the value is not just to the local Boston economy, but nationally. It’s not just cheap labor. It’s apprenticeship by the smartest in the world who will pay dividends for not only our lives but for generations.&lt;p&gt;I came as a student. I pay 6 figures in taxes. Some of my intl friends pay 7 figures and employ hundreds. I’ll have kids here that will generate enough value to do that as well.&lt;p&gt;Right now, there is a significant risk that a lot of economic value is going to be lost due to these immigration policies. That is not good for america.&lt;p&gt;It’s like a sports team: you have the ability to draft the top players from around the world for cheap. Why would you decide to boycott the draft itself and let the competitors (India, China) take those players? Especially some players that you have already trained (graduated students, post docs)</text></comment>