FORMER AMBASSADORS AND STATE OFFICIALS SEND LETTER OPPOSING TARGETING OF FOREIGN STUDENTS AND SCHOLARS
On Monday, a bipartisan group of more than 50 former senior-level State Department officials and ambassadors sent a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Deputy Secretary of State Christopher Landau to express dismay over actions that the Trump administration has taken “to subject foreign students and faculty to surveillance, arrest, detention, threats of visa revocation, and deportation based on their scholarship, public writings, statements on social media, expressions of opinion, and participation in lawful protests.” The letter noted that the actions do not serve the United States’ international interests and are causing “our diplomatic relations and global stature” to suffer. The letter urged Rubio and Landau to stop targeting “foreign students and faculty, including under the guise of foreign policy” and to “reverse the damage to our peerless colleges and universities and to our country.”
