Graduate student unions are escalating contract demands focused on protecting international students from deportation and information-sharing with immigration authorities. At Harvard, graduate students’ strike included demands for stronger safeguards for international students facing federal immigration enforcement. At MIT, the graduate-student union is seeking remote-work flexibility for visa-restricted students and a university pledge not to comply with immigration agents without a judicial warrant. The issue is gaining prominence as federal actions target noncitizen students. The article notes viral arrests of graduate students tied to pro-Palestinian activism, as well as the mass cancellation (later rescinded) of thousands of student-visa records. Harvard’s negotiations also reflect pressure to provide disciplinary records and other information to federal authorities. Rochelle Sun, a doctoral student and spokeswoman for the Harvard Graduate Students Union, said codifying protections became urgent after federal actions. The bargaining approach—restricting release of immigration-related information and increasing legal expense funding—signals how labor negotiations are becoming a key venue for student rights protections. The MIT Graduate Student Union, meanwhile, is negotiating while acknowledging that the expiring MIT contract already included some protections around release of student workers’ immigration information.