Steve was quoted by Times Higher Education in Efforts to Halt Student Deportations Risk Trump ‘Retaliation.’ He said that campuses do not have to proactively work with immigration officials but cannot interfere with their work. Commenting on the efforts of U.S. universities in quietly trying to find ways to protect their international students from deportation without risking being targeted by the Trump administration for funding cuts, Steve said, “Academic institutions worry that if they are too public about helping international students, the federal government could retaliate by cutting their federal research funding or even barring them from enrolling international students in the future. “It may not be the only strategy, but it may be the best strategy for now. You see that in other sectors too: big companies are not openly complaining about new tariffs but are working behind the scenes to try to get their products exempted.”
