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Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

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Re: Trump administration halts Harvard's ability to enroll international students

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Post by cozzyd »

yongjik wrote: post #30
ty6853 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The actual letter explains they can regain status by ratting out their students. It will quietly be done, although likely in a way that make it look as if Harvard hasn't.

Maybe, but I doubt it. Trump is not a mafia boss - time after time he showed that his words cannot be trusted. If Harvard makes a concession, there's no guarantee that Trump will "forgive" it. Look how China is dealing with Trump. Trump announces tariffs, China returns Boeing planes, tariffs somehow comes down.

It's too bad Barron was too dumb to enroll at Harvard so his admission couldn't be rescinded

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Post by chrisandchris »

platevoltage wrote: post #53
scoofy wrote: post #8

If you are a Republican and didn’t sign up for this, can you please write your representatives about impeachment? This is getting ridiculous. We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

If you are a Republican, you DID sign up for this. None of this has been kept secret.

Sometimes you sign up for things, because the advertisment did look great. But then, at one point, you want to cancel that subscription.

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Post by msabalau »

dekhn wrote: post #38
scoofy wrote: post #8

If you are a Republican and didn’t sign up for this, can you please write your representatives about impeachment? This is getting ridiculous. We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

The probability of impeachment succeeding at this time is effectively zero.

Even if impeachment is off the cards, is it impossible to imagine that there could be any sort of impact from Republican lawmakers hearing Republican voters that, or other things are not what they voted for or want?

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Post by DrillShopper »

fzeroracer wrote: post #49
scoofy wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It’s zero if nobody actually says anything. The legislature has the power to reign in the president. They only have to threaten a bipartisan impeachment.

Unfortunately I don't see a route where Republicans vote for impeachment, ever. They're already refusing to listen to constituents, hiding from their elected duties and letting Trump freely crash the economy on a whim.

Republicans will not give up power unless doing so saves their fortunes or saves their lives.

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Post by ceejayoz »

kristjansson wrote: post #60
ceejayoz wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A judge has already blocked the move. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/judge-blocks-tr... > A federal judge in California has blocked the Trump administration from terminating the legal statuses of international students at universities across the U.S.

I believe they've taken a different tactic here - attacking Harvard's ability to enroll international students, not the students' status directly.

The article states "existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status"; this injunction would appear to pause that.

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Post by Braxton1980 »

I get flak for hating Republican voters with the general feeling of most people being that voters are not responsible for the officials THEY elected to represent them.

I still haven't found a valid argument for why a voter isn't held responsible for the actions of representatives. Especially if the actions would be likely to occur.

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Post by bogwog »

HEmanZ wrote: post #21

I feel US higher education, which brain drains the rest of the world, is easily one of the best strategic advantages it could have for the next 100 years. Let’s throw that all away because learning is liberal.

Education is obsolete thanks to AI. US is just ahead of the curve as usual.

(/s in case it wasn't obvious)

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Post by DrillShopper »

ivape wrote: post #27
ar813 wrote: post #10

If they can do this to Harvard, what hope do other universities have?

Can they really do this? You're telling me this is real and not one of those "just for show" things that have no real teeth and will eventually get overturned by a judge?

> will eventually get overturned by a judge

Will the people who had to transfer or leave be made whole? Even if a judge overturns this it will take time that the students impacted by this will have to pay, regardless of outcome.

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Post by dragontamer »

scoofy wrote: post #8

If you are a Republican and didn’t sign up for this, can you please write your representatives about impeachment? This is getting ridiculous. We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

> We’d be much better off with a president Vance.

Vance literally defended the eating cats and dogs lie during the debate. The entire fucking point of this platform is to fuck the immigrants, legal or otherwise.

Or is this actually a surprise to anyone with half a brain?

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