Visa move will hurt America

US economy and soft power will be the losers if the country limits its pick of university students

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The Trump administration's directive to US embassies to pause new student-visa interviews until steps are in place to screen political leanings of applicants is in keeping with Washington's ongoing actions against perceived anti-Semitism in US campuses. Such profiling has far-reaching implications for US academia, research, business, and the political economy at large. It will have an immediate impact on students who may have been preparing to study in the US: Indians constitute the largest international group in universities there.