Kathmandu. Us President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced a ban on visas for foreign students who start studying at Harvard University.
This has increased his administration’s crackdown on higher education. “I have decided that it is necessary to restrict the entry of foreign nationals seeking to enter the United States only to participate in a course of study at Harvard University or an exchange visitor program organized by Harvard University,” Trump said in a statement.
The Trump administration has been in constant conflict with the academic field, especially Harvard. Harvard continues to draw trump’s ire and publicly rejects his administration’s repeated demands to relinquish control of recruitment, curriculum and research choices.
Trump’s announcement said the decision would come into effect immediately and “apply to foreigners entering or attempting to enter the United States to start studying at Harvard University through the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.”
Current international students who have already attended Harvard on various visas are facing review and are at risk of being “revoked” their visas, the statement said. The statement said the move was necessary to protect “national security”. “In my decision, asking about known cases of abuse and criminality by foreign students presents an unacceptable risk to the security of our nation for educational institutions that refuse to provide adequate information,” Trump said.
He also accused Harvard and its affiliated organizations on campus of continuing to deny equal opportunities to hardworking Americans. “It is not in the interest of the United States to further increase Harvard’s discrimination against non-priority races, national origins, common ancestry, or religions by further reducing opportunities for U.S. students through excessive foreign student enrollment,” it said.
Wednesday’s order appears to apply only to Harvard University. The Trump administration has clearly targeted foreign students. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has promised to “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students. Last week, after students graduated, a judge temporarily extended a temporary block to Trump’s efforts to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students.
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