No, that's not right. MIT takes few foreign undergrads, and the graduate students are almost all paid for by grants. It is actually harder for MIT to find fun

No, that's not right. MIT takes few foreign undergrads, and the graduate students are almost all paid for by grants. It is actually harder for MIT to find funding for foreign than domestic grad students. The The principal issues are - MIT values the skills and intelligence of foreign grad students, who contribute greatly to the research enterprise. - MIT's president is a Jewish immigrant from Venezuela who understands well illiberalism and is horrified by seeing in the US some of the things he saw in Chavez. Reif has been quite apolitical (see his bland letter after election), but the immigration ban has riled him up.