The White House considered weaponizing student visas to punish China, and coincidentally the universities benefiting from that influx of Chinese cash.

Sources told @FT that Stephen Miller said the proposed policy had a bonus: It would hurt elite universities where staff and faculty had been critical of Trump. https://t.co/ebGDHwIaDx

— Jonathan Cohn (@CitizenCohn) October 2, 2018

The article quotes the ambassador to China, Terry Branstad, who used to be governor of Iowa, as telling Trump that the ban would hurt small college and unis more than the Ivies. One of them would be Iowa Wesleyan College in Mount Pleasant, which has a pretty large Chinese student population for a school its size. So, Branstad knows what he’s talking about.