The University of Alaska Fairbanks’ approximately 200 international students and faculty face a maelstrom of new federal pressures under President Trump regarding visas, increased policing, and squashed political expression that have left many concerned about their future in the United States.

“The simple fact that you might be thrown out of the country because you were partisan online, it’s kind of insane,” said Victor Devaux-Chupin, a French glaciology Ph.D. student with the Geophysical Institute at UAF. “Like, which other country that we consider, as you know, democratic, does that.”

Last spring, Rümeysa Öztürk of Tufts University was arrested by six masked plainsclothes federal agents for penning an op-ed critical of our government; Moshen Mahdawi, a Palestinian student who organiz

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