April 14, 2025
The ivy league is in silence in Trump’s war before foreign students.
As Donald Trump quickly turns America into autocracy, a strange class appeared. The popular resistance movement is united against Trump, consisting of ordinary people – even as those who have the most rich and power in society, the fastest to bend the knee for the despot’s desire. As political scientist Jodi Dean noted in a recent edition in Nation“The institutions of civil society, organizations and practices that give democracy, its substance, destroy. The word of the day is surrender.”
It is strange that the most unpleasant presentation came from the team heights of society. Dean’s List of the Acquiescent Includes Columbia University (Meekly Caving in Trump’s Demand of A Purge of Pro-Palestinian Students), The Tony Law Firm Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garron (s In Pro Bono Work After Trump Threatened To Take Away Their Security Clerance), and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (who has adopted a strategy of buckling to trump’s demands, including on cases when the Democrats had a vigilance. Ever since Ding wrote, the template she described Universities of the highest level and Large legal firms bowing and scratching Trump as if he was an absolute monarch.
Contrary to this picture of the elite, there is a lot of evidence that ordinary people are willing to fight. Legislators on both parties – but especially Republicans – are appalling To go to the Town Hall, so that they do not face angry voters, asking why they allow Donald Trump and Elon Musk to manage coarse programs. Earlier this month massive “practical” protests experienced through the streets of American cities.
The difference between the combat spirit of ordinary Americans and the demoralized complicity of the elite is most visible in the field of education. When ice agents follow the students in elementary and high school schools, they often meet with the wall of the opposition and locals.
Last Monday, The Guardian report In one of these cases:
Mother and her three children who were taken into custody by immigration and customs bodies (ICE) as part of the trump in the tiny hometown of the Trump administration “Border Tsar”, Tom HomanThey were released in the following days of coverage by figures, supporters and participants of the rally calling for their freedom.
Last weekend about a thousand participants came out near the Homan’s house in a small New York The village calling for the release of the family after being detained last month …
Jaime Cook, School Director Sakets, where children were reportedly attending classes leaf to a community that pray for the safe return of students.
On Wednesday, Los -egeles Times report:
This week, the federal agent denied the entry into two elementary schools in the Los -Andgeles Single School District after they appeared without prior association and sought to contact five students who were supposedly entered the country without documentation.
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Contrast the behavior of these schools with Harvard. On Friday, The New York Times report In the vicious case, Ksenia Petrava, a researcher of the Harvard Medical School, which is held in prison for two months. Russian citizen Petrov works in the US for a visa. In February, she went to France. Returning to the United States, she returned at the request of her head of laboratory patterns of frog -ebrov. Immigration officials at the airport believed that it did not fill the proper forms and moved to deportation. As there is a real risk of harm when it is returned to Russia, from its past actions protesting against Russian autocrat Vladimir Putin, she was detained, not immediately deported. She is currently in a detention center in Louisiana when her case is being considered.
The New York Times Reports: “Harvard has little commented for the maintenance of Ms Petrov.” Harvard’s press secretary told the newspaper that the university is “closely monitored by the immigration policy and consequences for its international scientists and students,” and “deals with Ms. Peter’s prosecutor.”
When the head of Petrov asked “colleagues to send support letters for ICE, many confessed that they were afraid to put their names on paper – because they were in the country and on temporary visas.”
The New York Times She also reports that “Marina Sakharov-Liberman, the granddaughter of Soviet physicist and dissident Andrei Sakharov, watched the case in London. She stated that” unusual “that Harvard protested more publicly against Ms Petrov’s detention and demanded her release.”
Petrov’s case is not uncommon. While The most outrageous attacks on civil liberties Participating about Palestinian participants of the rally, such as former Colombian student Mahmoud Khalil, who is a political prisoner, there are many foreign students who risk deportation for minor crimes, Including speed tickets.
Like Sam Stein Boulevard note:
In recent weeks, Trump administration has recalled hundreds of international student visas, causing fear and chaos at universities and colleges across the country. One last examples were calmly held last week at the University of Georgia, where six graduate students who are not in the United States, all studied in the STEM disciplines received visa waiver notifications. According to a source familiar from the situation, more visa stops are expected.
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Inside Higher Educationthat is Maintaining database In these threats, which threaten the visa deportation and recall, nearly 1000 such cases were recorded.
Trump’s war before foreign students is an existential threat to American higher education. For centuries scientists -immigrants enriched America. As Brab Notes: “Immigrants have been awarded 40%, or 45 of 112 Nobel prizes received by Americans in chemistry, medicine and physics since 2000.” In a world where scientists no longer felt that the United States was a safe shelter, many of these scientists can accept their talent elsewhere. Politics reports What European countries are developing programs for non -America science. It is easy to imagine other parts of the world, such as Canada, Latin America and Asia, do the same. Just as Trump’s tariff policy leads to dollarization, his immigration policy leads to de-staging: intentional rejection of society.
Trump’s immigration cleaning also causes basic principles of free speech that underpin the university mission itself. However, administrators of leading schools, such as Colombia and Harvard, are noticeably silent on this issue. There are several rare exceptions to this rule, in particular, Princestan President Christopher L. Eys group, vocal defender of free speech. Moreover, academic organizations such as the American Association of University Teachers occupied by legal battles that university administrators are too cowardly wage.
But overall it is a gloomy time for American higher education as it is for the American elite as a whole. Once Trump is defeated, America will need a calculation with this elite. After all, if the management class cannot even defend the basic norms of liberal democracy, why allow them to manage?
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