Trump’s assault at Harvard University closes America from the world

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My early days coincided with a Bitan at Harvard University with the horrors of 11/11. In need of comfort and the inability to tear ourselves away from the news, teenagers of all nationalities crush a sticky seats and watch the towers repeatedly fall on the joint room TV. Every shock. Each together. That moment, and the days that followed, have taught me more about the power of society outside my country more than anything since anything since then.

no longer. Last week, in the last escalation to fight the US President against Harvard, the Trump administration Blore the university From registration of international students “immediately effective”. the reason? The alleged Harvard failed to act against anti -Semitism and teach a “awake” ideology. “This is a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country,” read the fateful statement from Christie sleep, Minister of Internal Security.

Warning to do what? Bend the knee to the president clearly. (Harvard was not, and the ban was temporarily banned in the courts).

There is a certain type of courage required to fill your life as a young man and move to another country. The education you receive not only from intellectual diversity. You become mixed, the person you hold some of your most composed years with the fingerprints of culture that is not your own. The person, regardless of the place that ends in the end, carries a permanent fond of your place to choose Instead of one, you are simply born as part of the strange genetic lottery.

Like all good relationships, this goes in two ways. International students may return to the home, but the Americans who live and study with them do not do so. The effect of those who differ from yourself on both sides, which is a reminder of lifelong that more exists, that ideas flow from everywhere.

Twenty -seven percent of the Student Authority at Harvard International University. But many other American academic institutions have a higher share. In 2023-24, there were more than 1.1 million foreign students in the United States. To look at this using Trump’s favorite end result, this is a lot of money.

Yes, Naim may be concerned about the use of tuition fees to the “auxiliary pillow … the endowments of millions of dollars”, but you do not have to be an economic expert to know that these students spend their money also elsewhere. Their contribution was estimated at $ 43 billion in the last academic year. Some of this reinforcement of the American economy will last beyond graduation. Many of the romantic or commercial partners will meet and remain. But staying or going, the life they build will return to America, and whose soft power grows only as a result.

And now? Well, international students are attracted to ideas – academic alike and those they hold sacred about the country they choose to make. America is a goal, escape, meal ticket, chance, refuge, adventure and challenge – everything is often at the same time. But a few of them want to go to a place where they can be extracted from the streets or get away at the airport. Thus, they will search elsewhere and lose the United States.

Meanwhile, academic freedom – that the precious, historical driver that was part of the American dream for a long time – will slowly wither. Ideas may not undergo border monitoring but people who definitely have. Innovation requires freedom to explore, wander, and bring the best of the world the world offers and benefit from it. It is difficult to find the ability to invent a savior of life or create the next technology giant enough to return from the global community. Just ask Elon Musk.

The battle in the courts will run over Harvard to run. But all over the world, a new generation that was preparing for his great American adventure will formulate backup plans. I am still thinking of returning to the enthusiastic international regiment two decades ago. United is nothing but individual dreams of America and a feeling that the world had enough space for all of us.

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