Raskin: Trump looking to 'exact vengeance' on Harvard with foreign student block
Source: The Hill
05/24/25 1:18 PM ET
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) said during a recent interview that President Trump is looking to “exact vengeance” on Harvard University after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) blocked the Ivy League institution from enrolling foreign students.
Raskin said on Friday night that the administration’s move to rescind Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification is “definitely unconstitutional because it was in retaliation for Harvard rejecting the last round of unconstitutional attacks on its autonomy.”
“When Donald Trump essentially said that the federal government of the United States was going to take over their admissions process, take over their faculty hiring process, take over their curriculum, Harvard just said, that’s a bridge too far. No way,” Raskin, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, said during his Friday night appearance on CNN’s “Erin Burnett OutFront” show.
The Maryland Democrat, a Harvard Law School alumnus, argued Trump is “trying to exact vengeance and retaliation again by taking it out on 7,000 students from other countries, forcing them to completely change their plans, turning their lives upside down and stripping Harvard of a quarter of its students.”
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5317511-jamie-raskin-donald-trump-harvard-foreign-students/
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