Brandon Drenon and Robin Levinson-King BBC News, Washington DC and Boston BBC For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres. Those taken...
Weeks after the Rutgers University Senate passed a resolution to form a “mutual defense compact” — aiming to band together with other universities to protect from the Trump administration’s attacks on academic freedom and free speech — university communities’ push for their schools to stand up to the White House is gaining momentum. Labor unions,...