Graduate-student unions are demanding colleges protect international students as Trump-era immigration enforcement expands. At Harvard, graduate workers went on strike with contract demands that include better protections for international students at risk, while MIT’s Graduate Student Union is seeking remote-work flexibility tied to visa constraints and a university pledge not to comply with immigration agents without a judicial warrant. Reporting also points to clauses in recent graduate worker agreements at Cornell, Penn, and public universities in California and Maine that formalize institutional support for immigrant and international students. The issue is gaining urgency as foreign and undocumented students have been swept into enforcement actions, including reported viral arrests of graduate students at Columbia and Tufts and broader student-visa record cancellations later rescinded. Harvard’s union spokeswoman, Rochelle Sun, said federal actions in the last year made it “important to codify protections,” including commitments around student data-sharing. MIT’s contract talks are beginning, and MIT union leaders noted existing protections that restrict release of students’ immigration information. For higher education governance, these bargaining demands are shaping institutional compliance posture—particularly around data privacy, due process commitments, and remote access provisions for students facing travel restrictions.