The Trump administration cancels Harvard’s ability to register international students

The administration of US President Donald Trump canceled Harvard University’s ability to register international students on Thursday, forcing the current students to move to other schools or lose their legal status, with the threat to expand the campaign to other schools.

The administration said in a statement that US Minister of Internal Security Christie sleep ordered the administration to end the certificate of student visitors and stock exchange program at Harvard University for the academic year 2025-26.

Harvard said this step, which affects thousands of students, was illegal and retaliation.

Student Leo Gerdin descends from Sweden, economic studies and government at Harvard University. He said that on Thursday news was “tragic” for him and his colleagues, international students.

“We are used as a poker now in a battle between the White House and Harvard.”

“There is a lot of uncertainty at the present time about what will happen and people are definitely concerned,” he said. “It was a dream for many to come to this institution and come to this country and study, and now, all of this may be taken from us.”

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Alex Ocher, head of the Toronto Higher Education Strategy, says that the actions of the United States government can have a chilling effect on the aspirations of students from abroad who dream about studying at Harvard University.

“It sends messages to potential students abroad and we do not want you, and that she is treated as a dump in … local political games and should not be concerned with the presentation,” Oshher said.

Many prominent Canadians at Harvard University, including former ministers William Lyon McKenzi Kingand Pierre Trudeau and Current Prime Minister Mark Carney. author Margaret AtwoodAlberta leader of the National Democratic Party Nishi NishiHalifax mayor Andy VelaurThe former General Governor David Johnston And the former liberal liberal leader Michael Ignatv They are also Harvard graduates. Chrystia Freeland, Federal Minister of Transport and Trade, is Grad at Harvard University as well.

The domination of foreign students is a major escalation of the Trump administration campaign against the Energy Laifi Lawy Live University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which appeared as one of the most prominent Trump’s institutional goals.

Harvard is “fully committed” to educate foreign students

This step comes After Harvard refused The department said that the provision of information that Nayyu had previously demanded about some holders of foreign students who are enrolling in the university.

He joined Harvard University

In 2022, Chinese citizens were the largest number of foreign students with 1016 personalities, the university’s numbers appear. After that, there were students from Canada, India, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Singapore and Japan.

“It is a privilege, not really, for universities to register foreign students and benefit from their high academic payments to help set their endowments of billions of dollars.”

In a letter to the university, Nayyped Harvard gave the “opportunity” to restore her certificates by delivering them within 72 hours of records of foreign students, including any video or voice of their protest activity in the past five years.

Harvard University described the illegal government’s work, and said he was “completely committed” to educating foreign students.

“This retaliatory measure threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission,” the university said in a statement.

The Democrats in Congress condemned the cancellation, as Representative Khayi Raskin described it as “an unbearable attack on Harvard’s independence and academic freedom,” saying that it was government revenge for the former Harvard resistance to Trump.

Nick Akraman, the former federal prosecutor who worked in the Watergate case, said the administration’s move was “completely preceded” and the courts likely to stop.

Akraman, who went to Harvard University Law Faculty, said, said Harvard, German broadcaster Deutsche Welly.

Trump has already freezed several billion dollars from federal scholarships to Harvard in recent weeks, prompting the university to prosecute to restore funding.

In a separate lawsuit related to Trump’s efforts to end the legal status of hundreds of foreign students throughout the United States, a federal judge spent on Thursday that the administration could not end its status without following the appropriate organizational procedures. It was not immediately clear how this ruling will affect the procedure against Harvard.

“Warning for each other university”

Naim said that she was “definitely” considering similar moves against other universities, including Columbia University in New York.

“This must be a warning to every other university to collect your work together,” she said on Fox News. The story with Martha McClicom.

Trump, a Republican, was in January in January, pledging to suppress a widespread migration. His administration tried to cancel student visas and green cards for foreign students who participated in the pro -Palestinian protests.

He made an extraordinary effort to renew colleges and private schools throughout the United States that he says Foster ideologies against America, Marxism and “left radicalism”. Harvard has in particular criticized the employment of prominent Democrats in teaching or leadership positions.

The US Department of Health and Humanitarian Services said on Monday that it would finish $ 60 million from federal scholarships to Harvard University because it failed to address anti -Semitic harassment and ethnic discrimination on campus.

In a legal complaint filed earlier this month, Harvard University said it is committed to combating anti -Semitism and has taken steps to ensure that its university campus would be safe and welcomed by Jewish and Israeli students.

Aaron Rachelin-Milenik, an older colleague in the American Immigration Council, a pro-migration group, said the Harvard University visa program “unnecessarily punished thousands of innocent students.”

“None of them made any mistake. They are just a side damage for Trump,” said Bluezki.

University students in American colleges usually pay full tuition fees, an important source of revenue for colleges and universities.

International students at Harvard University also contributed to the local economy, and NAFSA data indicates. Their value spent $ 384 million annually in the academic year 2023-24, Supporting about 3900 jobs Through their housing payments, dining, retail trade, other services and commodities.