Demand for student visas surged after Myanmar’s coup. Now, Trump has shut a door students spent years trying to open.

When a 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck on March 28 in Mandalay, the second-largest city in Myanmar, 20-year-old Kyi Noo Khin watched the walls of her family home crack and crumble. For a moment, she thought she might lose everything. In June, while still recovering from the aftermath of the quake, another kind of shock struck her. “It was unexpected, honestly,” Noo Khin said of the Trump…

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