Following the Donald Trump administration’s determination to bar Harvard College from enrolling worldwide college students, US Congressman Ro Khanna criticised the transfer and challenged outstanding tech figures together with Elon Musk, Marc Andreessen, David Sacks, Chamath Palihapitiya, Vinod Khosla, and Reid Hoffman to defend the ban, stating that it can’t be justified on benefit.

Sharing a submit on X, Khanna mentioned, “Anybody from Silicon Valley keen to talk out towards the Trump @JDVance ban on present and future worldwide college students at Harvard? I do know @elonmusk, @DavidSacks, @pmarca, @chamath, @vkhosla, @reidhoffman that there’s not a single tech chief who can defend this on the deserves.”

Anybody from Silicon Valley keen to talk out towards the Trump @JDVance ban on present and future worldwide college students at Harvard? I do know @elonmusk @DavidSacks @pmarca @chamath @vkhosla @reidhoffman that there’s not a single tech chief who can defend this on the deserves.

— Ro Khanna (@RoKhanna) May 23, 2025

Following Trump’s order, Harvard College condemned the choice as illegal and unwarranted and mentioned that the choice “imperils the futures of 1000’s of scholars and students.”

The college has filed a authorized criticism and introduced plans to hunt a short lived restraining order because it pursues all accessible cures.

In a press release launched on Friday, the Ofice of the President of the Harvard College mentioned, “Yesterday, the federal authorities introduced that it has revoked Harvard’s certification beneath the Pupil and Alternate Customer Program (SEVP) and stripped the College of its authority to sponsor F- and J- visas for worldwide college students and students for the 2025-26 tutorial 12 months. The revocation continues a sequence of presidency actions to retaliate towards Harvard for our refusal to give up our tutorial independence and to undergo the federal authorities’s unlawful assertion of management over our curriculum, our school, and our scholar physique.”

Reassuring its worldwide group, Harvard emphasised its dedication to defending tutorial freedom and pledged assist to these impacted by the choice.

It added, “We condemn this illegal and unwarranted motion. It imperils the futures of 1000’s of scholars and students throughout Harvard and serves as a warning to numerous others at faculties and universities all through the nation who’ve come to America to pursue their schooling and fulfill their desires. We’ve got simply filed a criticism, and a movement for a short lived restraining order will comply with. As we pursue authorized cures, we’ll do every thing in our energy to assist our college students and students. The Harvard Worldwide Workplace will present periodic updates as new info turns into accessible.”

Earlier on Thursday, the White Home mentioned, “Enrolling overseas college students is a privilege, not a proper.” It accused Harvard management of turning “their once-great establishment right into a hot-bed of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators.”

In a press release to CNN, White Home spokesperson Abigail Jackson mentioned, “They’ve repeatedly did not take motion to deal with the widespread issues negatively impacting American college students and now they need to face the implications of their actions.”

Harvard and the Trump administration have been engaged in a battle for months because the administration calls for the college make modifications to the programming of the establishment, hiring and administration to take away on-campus antisemitism and take away what it termed “racist ‘variety, fairness and inclusion’ practices.” The administration has focused overseas college students and workers, whom it believes had been a part of the contentious campus protests over the Israel-Hamas struggle.

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