I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, this is a reasonable interpretation that matches what the universities themselves claimed: > The universities said in

I'm not sure why you're being downvoted, this is a reasonable interpretation that matches what the universities themselves claimed: > The universities said in their court challenge to the latest policy that “by all appearances,” the government’s attempt to force international students to study on campus had also been a political move, calculated to advance the Trump administration’s agenda to force universities to reopen their gates with in-person classes. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/coronavirus-international-foreign-student-visas.html https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/us/coronavirus-internatio... Of course the fact that this hurts immigrants is icing on the cake to the administration, but it seems like the primary goal of this was to use international student revenue as leverage to force universities to open.