Trump attack on Harvard to block international students raises fears at California campuses

Los Angeles Times ^ | May 23, 2025 3:57 PM PT | Michael Wilner and Jaweed Kaleem

[E. Pluribus Unum]

• A judge agrees with Harvard’s argument that the ban would cause ‘immediate and irreparable harm’ to the institution.
• Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said the actions against Harvard were a ‘warning’ to universities nationwide.

WASHINGTON — A multifront assault by the Trump administration against the nation’s oldest university intensified on Friday when Harvard sued to block the government from barring international student enrollment, and a judge issued an immediate order to halt the ban.

The rapid-fire legal action is the latest in Trump administration attacks against the university as it claims Harvard failed to adhere to its demands to combat antisemitism.

But the whiplash felt by Harvard international students is reverberating far beyond Cambridge, Mass., as university leaders and foreign students across the United States and California watch with growing alarm over how federal actions will affect the nation’s 1.1-million foreign student population — 6% of American higher education enrollment.

Campuses have been on alert since last month, when the Homeland Security and State departments canceled thousands of enrollment certifications and visas at dozens of U.S. colleges, including UCLA, for individuals who often had minor infractions such as traffic tickets. The government, seeing losses in court, later reversed those cancellations and was further blocked from undertaking them when an Oakland-based federal judge issued an injunction Thursday.

“The current mindset of the international community is uncertainty,” said Syed Tamim Ahmad, a junior at UCLA who is from India and recently completed his term as the student government’s international student representative.

Ahmad, who recently took the MCAT and plans to apply to medical school, said he was reconsidering whether continuing his studies in the United States is a safe option.

“We do not know what to expect or what to come next,” he said. “Every student saw what happened at...?”

[ckilmer]

Chinese students are required by chinese law to be spies.

[Bigg Red]

Ahmad, who recently took the MCAT and plans to apply to medical school, said he was reconsidering whether continuing his studies in the United States is a safe option.

“We do not know what to expect or what to come next,” he said. “Every student saw what happened at...?”
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Go back to your flies-on-your-face country. Flee this terrible land. Bye-bye....

[itsahoot]

What is the crime?

Nothing serious just breaking a few Supreme Court Rules on discrimination against minority Asian and White students and favoring Black students.

[Brian Griffin]

“Go back to your flies-on-your-face country. Flee this terrible land. Bye-bye....”

The universities are happy to have him.

Unless he has done wrong, he should be made to feel welcome.

[Herakles]

College endowment funds are untaxed hedge funds. They are an investment firm masquerading as an education entity!