Trump restricts international students from studying at Harvard

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: CBS News

POLITICS
Trump restricts international students from studying at Harvard

By Joe Walsh
Updated on: June 4, 2025 / 9:26 PM EDT / CBS News

President Trump barred most international students from entering the United States to study at Harvard University late Wednesday -- escalating the Trump administration's battle with the Ivy League school.

In a proclamation, Mr. Trump suspended the entry of foreign students or exchange visitors planning to go to Harvard, unless his administration determines somebody's entry "would be in the national interest." The order also directs Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider whether student visa holders who are already in the U.S. "should have their visas revoked." The order will expire in six months, though an extension is possible.

The order claimed Harvard "is no longer a trustworthy steward of international student and exchange visitor programs," accusing the school of failing to report students' disciplinary records to the federal government and criticizing it for ties to researchers based in China.

A Harvard spokesperson called the order "yet another illegal retaliatory step taken by the Administration in violation of Harvard's First Amendment rights." ... "Harvard will continue to protect its international students," the spokesperson told CBS News.

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Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/trump-restricts-international-students-from-studying-at-harvard/

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Earlier in GD, which I did not see until Thursday morning, this from dalton99a:

Wednesday, 9:35 PM
Trump Issues Proclamation Banning International Students at Harvard From Entering U.S.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220367387
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https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/06/enhancing-national-security-by-addressing-risks-at-harvard-university/

PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS
ENHANCING NATIONAL SECURITY BY ADDRESSING
RISKS AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Proclamations
June 4, 2025

BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A PROCLAMATION
Admission into the United States to attend, conduct research, or teach at our Nation's institutions of higher education is a privilege granted by our Government, not a guarantee. That privilege is necessarily tied to the host institution's compliance and commitment to following Federal law. Harvard University has failed in this respect, among many others.

The Student Exchange Visa Program (SEVP) depends fundamentally on academic institutions' good faith, transparency, and full adherence to the relevant regulatory frameworks. This is for crucial national-security reasons. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has long warned that foreign adversaries and competitors take advantage of easy access to American higher education to, among other things, steal technical information and products, exploit expensive research and development to advance their own ambitions, and spread false information for political or other reasons. Our adversaries, including the People's Republic of China, try to take advantage of American higher education by exploiting the student visa program for improper purposes and by using visiting students to collect information at elite universities in the United States.

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[C_U_L8R]

1. So he fancies himself judge and executioner

This is not the American way.

[SheltieLover]

2. Somehow, I don't see this ending well for kraznov

[tulipsandroses]

3. Talk about waste, fraud and abuse. This will end up in court. Harvard will prevail. trump layers paid to defend this

foolishness when they could have been working on things that actually need reform.

[Scrivener7]

4. That's not his decision to make.

[msongs]

5. if Harvard caves the rest will follow in a landslide effect nt

[cstanleytech]

6. Trump's overextending his powers IMO.

[Initech]

7. If we ever get out of this, Charlie Kirk needs to be permanently banned from the White House and DC.

We know he's the one who's been feeding Trump this bullshit about Harvard, so yeah fuck him.

[Warpy]

8. Harvard is not a public university

so he's got nothing to say about who they can and can't admit.


It's going to be a lot of fun watching their law school tear him to little pieces. They will, too.

[moniss]

9. They are too stupid to realize that much of higher education today

is conducted over the internet. There are ways for schools to get around requiring the physical presence of the student. With video linking it is no longer a need to physically be in a lecture hall. For the sciences things like doing lab in Chemistry for example is a different matter but facilities can be arranged with other countries to have lab facilities available also with video linking. The point being there are ways around physical presence.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. "Judge Burroughs will likely enjoin Trump's proclamation[,] ... but the damage is done."

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Jameel Jaffer
‪@jameeljaffer.bsky.social‬

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Judge Burroughs will likely enjoin Trump's proclamation for the same reasons she granted the temporary restraining order, but the damage is done. Brilliant students who would otherwise have come to Harvard will go to Oxford or the Sorbonne or McGill instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

Trump Restricts Harvard’s International Students From Entering U.S.
www.nytimes.com
June 4, 2025 at 9:51 PM

Judge Burroughs will likely enjoin Trump's proclamation for the same reasons she granted the temporary restraining order, but the damage is done. Brilliant students who would otherwise have come to Harvard will go to Oxford or the Sorbonne or McGill instead. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/u...

— Jameel Jaffer (@jameeljaffer.bsky.social) 2025-06-05T01:51:05.048Z