US President Donald Trump told reporters on Friday that he wanted to assure Chinese international students in the country that they would be fine amid his administration’s crackdown on academia.
Trump’s administration this week said it would specifically target permissions for Chinese students in its latest broadside against US higher education.
However, asked what message he would send to Chinese college students in the country, Trump insisted: “They’re going to be ok. It’s going to work out fine.”
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The softer tone comes after a judge on Thursday extended a temporary block on Trump’s bid to prevent Harvard from enrolling international students.
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio vowed on Wednesday to “aggressively” revoke visas to students from China.
Rubio has already yanked thousands of visas, largely over students’ involvement in activism critical of Israel’s offensive in Gaza, but also over minor traffic contraventions and other infractions.
The Trump administration has been in an ongoing showdown with academia, Harvard in particular, demanding it provide a list of students that the government is interested in, something the university has declined to do.
“I don’t know why Harvard’s not giving us the list. There’s something going on, because Harvard is not giving us a list,” Trump said.
“They don’t want to give the list, because they have names on there that supposedly are quite bad,” he said.
At graduation ceremonies this week, Harvard University president Alan Garber received a standing ovation when he called for universities to stand “firm” in the war the Trump administration has waged against students and schools.
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