The Trump Administration’s Decision to Revoke the SEVIS Certificate is a Threat to Students, Scholars, and the Economy: A Response to a Harvard Campus Community Critique

She claims that Trump is punishing students and hurting the economy to silence anyone who disagrees with him. “The only ones who benefit from Donald Trump’s actions are China and other countries who are already recruiting these students. It’s the opposite of America First.

A SportICO report last month said that Harvard has the most athletes on its sports teams with almost 200 international hometowns. The site noted that some could be U.S. citizens or green card holders who wouldn’t need one of the international visas at issue in an escalating fight premised by the administration’s assertions that the school failed to protect Jewish students from antisemitism.

The Ivy League school with the nation’s largest athletic program would not be able to issue international student visas if the decision is made by the Trump administration.

The president of Harvard addressed the campus community early Friday morning. “We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action,” he wrote, saying that the move by the Trump administration is not only a threat to the international students and scholars at Harvard, but also “serves as a warning to countless others at colleges and universities throughout the country who have come to America to pursue their education and fulfill their dreams.”

Moreover, the suit claims, revoking Harvard’s SEVIS status puts students in an impossible position. “Termination of SEVIS records presents student visa holders whose school loses its certification with two bad choices,” the complaint claims: transferring immediately, or leaving the country.

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Elias Rodriguez, who is suspected of killing two Israeli Embassy employees outside a Jewish museum in Washington, D.C., has been charged with first-degree murder, the murder of foreign officials and other crimes. The attack is being investigated as a possible hate crime. Rodriguez flew from Chicago to the nation’s capital on Tuesday, the day before the attack. He purchased a ticket just hours before an event for young diplomats in the museum.

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said in a statement that the Trump administration is “holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.”

“Not knowing if you’re going to have 25% of your students is something Harvard cannot leave until later in the summer, and I’ve been working in international education for over two decades,” Carver said. He is also the executive director of the University of California, Berkeley’s International House, a center that holds nearly 600 students and scholars from around the world.

“This makes international students wonder if the U.S. is still a safe and welcoming place to study,” he says. “We’re already seeing fewer international applications this year.”

More than 1.1 million international students attend the U.S. universities in the upcoming school year. They do not qualify for federal financial aid so they are critical to the financial health of many schools.

A federal judge has temporarily blocked DHS’s attempt to revoke Harvard’s SEVIS certification. International students at the university are safe for now.