Trump administration ramps up attack on Harvard, Columbia

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday launched his campaign against top US universities, which banned visas on all foreign students who attend Harvard and threatened to snatch Colombia with its educational approval.

Trump is trying to bring universities to their international students with claims of national security, and that they ignored the Jewish hostility on the campus, and maintained liberal prejudice.

An announcement by the White House late Wednesday announced that the entry of international students to start a course in Harvard will be “suspended and restricted for six months, and that existing entries abroad can remove their visas.”

The order said, “Harvard’s behavior has described it as an inappropriate destination for foreign students and researchers.”

“I’m trembling. It’s provocative,” Carl Molden, a Harvard government and a classic student from Austria, told AFP. “He is misusing his executive power to do maximum harm to Harvard.”

“My God!” Another international student in Harvard said, who refused to be nominated for fear of taking revenge on the executive order.

“It’s such a notoriety.”

‘Retaliation’

The announcement was stopped by a judge following a preliminary attempt to abolish the Trump administration’s right to enroll Harvard’s entry and to host foreign students.

The government has already pledged about $ 3.2 billion of Harvard’s beneficiary federal grants and contracts and promised to exclude Cambridge, the Massachusetts Institution from any federal fund in the future.

Harvard has been at the forefront of Trump’s campaign against superior universities when he refused his calls to monitor his curriculum, staff, students’ recruitment and “diversity of views and diversity.”

Trump has also collected international students in Harvard, who made 27 % of total registration in the academic year of 2024-2025 and a major source of income.

“This is another illegal retaliation by the administration in violation of Harvard’s first amendment rights,” a university spokesman said. “Harvard will continue to protect his international students.”

The latest sharp action against Harvard took place when Trump’s secretary education secretary education threatened to snatch Columbia University on Wednesday.

The Republican has targeted the New York IV League organization for allegedly neglecting harassment of Jewish students, suspicion of suspicion of all its federal funds.

Unlike Harvard, several top institutions, including Colombia, are already bowing down to the Trump administration’s remote demands, claiming that the educational elite is very left.

‘To counter anti -Judaism’

Wednesday’s official action shows that this is not enough for Trump.

“Columbia University was seen in another way when Jewish students suffered harassment,” said Linda McMemon, secretary of US education.

It has accused the school’s rules for breaking the school, which forbids the recipients of federal funds from discriminating on the basis of race, color or national origin.

In a statement, the US Department of Education said its civil rights office had contacted a Colombian approval agency for alleged violations.

Withdrawal of Colombia verification will show that it will lose access to all federal funds – which is a very important proportion of university income.

Students studying at the university will not be able to get federal grants and loans for tuition.

The administration has already considered $ 400 million in Colombia funds, indicating the university in March to declare anti -Judaism, policing protests and monitoring for specific educational departments.

After the announcement on Wednesday, a Colombian spokesman said the university had raised concerns raised by the government with its approval.

The spokesman said, “We have resolved these concerns directly with the middle states.

“We take this issue seriously and are working with the federal government to resolve it.”