Alfred Williamson, a Welsh-Danish physics and government student in his second year at Harvard, said he was “clinging onto the hope that Harvard will win this fight and that I will get to return next semester.”
“Then the Trump administration does whatever it can to crush those dreams,“ Williamson, 20, told AFP of Trump’s proclamation Wednesday alleging that “Harvard’s conduct has rendered it an unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers” and also threatened existing international students with visa cancellations.
He said “Trump is targeting Harvard because it has the integrity to stand up to his unlawful and un-American demands.”
The government already cut around $3.2 billion of federal grants and contracts benefiting Harvard and pledged to exclude the Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution from any future federal funding while threatening its tax-exempt status.
A graduate student at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government from India who declined to be named said: “I just read this latest news. We have not received anything from Harvard yet, but this isn’t surprising -- albeit concerning.”
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“What about students who went home for the summer? There’s a risk they won’t be able to come back,“ said the student who is currently seeking to renew their own visa.
“In response to the proclamation, we foresee Harvard University pursuing similar legal action by filing a lawsuit in federal court and seeking a preliminary injunction to temporarily block enforcement,“ said Laura Devine Immigration attorney Khensani Mathebula.
A US Harvard student of government going into her fourth year who is friends with many international students, Olivia Data, said “this news is heartbreaking and scary.”
“Our friends and classmates are being used as collateral in a dictator’s grab for power, and none of us know where it will end or whether our university can protect its students in our current political system,“ she said.
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