On Sunday, The Federalist posted an article about some changes President Trump is making to the student visa program.

The article reports:

A new rule the Trump administration published earlier this month is finally addressing the flood of foreign students at U.S. universities plagued by anti-American ideology. Half a million of these students are illegal aliens, while more than a million additional college students are here on student visas, overwhelmingly from non-Western countries having political systems unlike or opposed to ours.

Trump has just ended this racket. Under a new rule issued by Trump’s Department of Homeland Security, most new F-1 students will receive visas that expire after a fixed period of time, usually four years. This puts healthy pressure on universities and students to reach the finish line as scheduled, rather than dawdle indefinitely in the academic cocoon. The average length of time in graduate studies has ballooned to more than seven years for a Ph.D., which harmfully causes students to delay having families and finding employment.

For half a century foreigners could enter graduate programs and take many years, far more than four, to complete their doctoral programs while remaining in the U.S. without any deadline to leave. The F-1 visa program has been allowing foreigners to remain on visas here for the “duration of their status” at their university, with no time limit.

…Trump’s regulatory changes also restrict transfers by foreigners from one university to another while here. Restrictions are being imposed on foreigners switching academic programs within their schools, too. “An F-1 student at any level below the graduate degree level may not change programs or educational objectives, i.e. majors or educational levels, within the first academic year of a program of study, unless an exception is authorized,” the rule states. The new rule takes effect on Sept. 15 of this year.

The article ends on an interesting note:

Even before the new rule takes effect, universities are complaining about a decline in international students in graduate programs, which they attribute to Trump’s occasional travel bans and freezing of some federal grants. The drop in K-12 enrollment (which is mostly due to the declining birth rate) means there will be fewer American students in the pipeline for universities in the future.

But the problem isn’t travel bans or Trump’s new rule ending decade-long stints in college. Universities have only themselves to blame if there is a shortage of American students. Left-wing political ideology dominant at universities leans strongly against child-rearing. If more students are wanted for the future, then there should be more encouragement now by academia for Americans to have and raise their children.