'This is not an unusual story'

'Why US colleges should cut back on international students'

David D'Alessandro at The Boston Globe

Many "schools accept large numbers of international students," so the "greatest trade deficit in the United States is not in sneakers, smartphones, and automobiles; it's in undergraduate and graduate students," says David D'Alessandro. International students "studying here should be protected." But "not only are we giving a major slice" of education "away to non-Americans, the universities...