Donald Trump announced on Wednesday, June 4 that he prohibited the visa of foreign students to integrate Harvard, an additional escalation in his conflict against US university institutions that he markedly accuses of promoting ideas of the left too progressive.
“I have concluded that it is necessary to restrict entry to foreign citizens who seek to come to the United States to participate, exclusive or to a large extent, in a study program of Harvard University (…),” said the president in a statement.
From his return to the White House in January, Donald Trump has been carrying out the position against universities that accuses of spreading an “awakened” ideology, a term used pejoratively by conservatives to denounce what they perceive as an excess of militancy in favor of minorities.
Trump wants to eliminate his accreditation from Columbia in Columbia
This measure, whose government had already threatened Harvard, is immediately applied to “foreigners who enter or try to enter the United States to begin participating” in university programs.
Foreign students currently registered in Harvard, the oldest university in the United States and one of the best in the world, will be examined and could see their “revoked” visas, according to the text.
This announcement occurs the same day as the threat of the Donald Trump government to withdraw its accreditation from Columbia. He accuses him, like Harvard, of not having sufficiently protected from Jewish students during the manifestations of students against the devastating Israel War in Gaza.
Source: BFM TV
