For some travelers arriving at Logan airport’s international terminal, loved ones with flowers or balloons await them just outside the door to U.S. Customs and Border Control. But it’s a lonelier arrival for many incoming international students, who each year leave their families to pursue higher education in the U.S.
And this year the trip comes with a lot more anxiety. What was once a routine journey back to school for the roughly 80,000 international students on Massachusetts campuses now feels laden with risk thanks to the Trump administration’s shifting regulations.
“I am quite worried actually,” said Alfred Williamson a few weeks before he flew from the United Kingdom to Boston. “I assume that I’ll make it in and that I will eventually be OK, but I think I’ll have a difficult time doing so.”
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