In a potential threat to future U.S. innovation, new international enrollment at U.S. colleges is down for the first time in more than a decade, according to a new report. It is the first hard sign that the Trump administration’s rhetoric may be frightening away some of the world’s best and brightest who traditionally have been drawn to settle and work in the U.S.
Why it matters: “The Chinese whiz kid, if he can find a way to America, he’ll come here. If you’re good, you can make a lot of money,” Anthony Carnevale, director of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce, tells Axios. “That whole set of incentives has always been tied to the immigrant stream, and we’re severing that connection.”
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