The president has upended the country's reputation among foreign students, who number around one million, as he presses a campaign against US universities he sees as obstructing his “Make America Great Again” populist agenda.
Harvard applied mathematics and economic student Abdullah Shahid Sial, 20, said the Trump administration's campaign against US universities that the president accused of being hotbeds of liberal bias and anti-Semitism had been “dehumanizing.”
Sial said he advised acquaintances to have backup plans if US colleges became inaccessible, and that a friend applied to Harvard's law school, as well as Columbia's, and two less reputable British institutions -- ultimately opting to go to the UK.
Karl Molden, a Harvard government and classics student from Austria, said Trump's move to block the university hosting and enrolling foreign students meant he was unsure if he would be able to return after summer vacation.
While that decision -- affecting some 27 percent of the overall Harvard population -- was paused by a judge pending a hearing Thursday, the move still threw student plans into chaos.
“It’s just really hard.”
“I’ve already heard this from professors in other countries who say ‘we encourage our best students to go to the United States’,“ Harvard professor Ryan Enos told AFP at a noisy rally against Trump's policies Tuesday, adding “we wonder if we can tell them that anymore.”
“International students already represent the most tracked and vetted category of nonimmigrants in the United States. It is a poor use of taxpayer dollars,“ said the NAFSA Association of International Educators non-profit.
“Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect, and all they’re doing is getting in deeper and deeper,“ he said Wednesday in the White House.
“It’s scary, because we think to ourselves that all our activity on social networks could be monitored, for example if we like pro-Palestinian posts or anti-Trump posts. All of that could see us denied a visa,“ she said.
“I’m completely in the dark,“ said 20-year-old Alfred Williamson, a Welsh-Danish physics and government student in his second year at Harvard.
Sial, the Harvard student from Pakistan, said foreign students like him were “made to fight this battle which no one signed up for.”
“It’s really unfortunate that it’s come down to that.”
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