Trump Bans Harvard from Accepting Foreigners

Step A: Form a list of hostile nations. Allow no student admittance to any US institute of higher learning from those nations. (Have their passport application denied. This leaves the intervention of the legislative branch outside the realm of mandates.) Step B: Send home all the currently enrolled students from hostile nations that haven't renounced their native citizenship and applied for naturalization to the U.S.. (Have their passport revoked.) Higher education needs to go on a diet anyway. If we can't get any more Americans to excel in the sciences, we need to emphasize that in grade one. Trump's trade school initiative is an excellent idea. We don't need anymore BFAs in the Arts who only learn how to dye their hair with clown colors.

Since WHEN is allowing Avowed Enemies of the US access to and education from the ANY of our universities a GOOD IDEA?? Giving them access to research facilities is Especially egregious!

In very limited numbers and only if thoroughly vetted.

This is complex. (1) Why is Harvard receiving such massive sums? (2) Why are enrollments secretive? Quit with the clandestinely status of this overpriced school! (3) Get rid of DEI. (4) Which may be most important - the students should not be hostile to America! If they are, they should educate themselves in their own “beloved” country.

Each student should be evaluated and vetted before they're allowed to enter the United States to enter a college or university of their choice. If anything is found unacceptable in the sense of attempting to destroy or subjugate our laws. They should be removed from our country and no longer allowed to come to the United States of America for education.

Accepting foreign students from non-hostile countries (eg. UK, Australia, etc.), who are vetted to ensure they are NOT radical leftists or activists, and to ensure they share the same values as most US citizens (ie. the values of the current Administration) should be warmly welcomed in limited numbers.

Foreign students should be allowed but never more than 5% of the student body and only from certain friendly countries after proper vetting through the State department. Chinese students should not be allowed and all current visas should be revoked. PERIOD

Foreign students should have to meet a much higher threshold of requirements. They must be extremely thoroughly vetted. There must be clarity as to what they are involved in while here, especially social and political associations. Very important also to know their family background, connections and ties to CCP, and the actual source of the money paying for their tuition and other expenses while here.

To receive the federal monies that have been flowing to Harvard, and enroll foreign students, the university had agreed to "act in the public interest". How is allowing radical students who hate the US, to stage vicious protests against the US, and violently harassing Jewish students acting in the public interest? How is the radical left anti US teaching of openly communist professors (being paid about a million dollars per year) in the public interest of our country? Harvard should be dismantled and rebuilt to resemble the Harvard of fifty years ago. Bob Tasker

"The decision to redirect $3 billion to trade schools is massively important to the president's agenda, effectively acting as a redistribution from wealthy, educated elites to working-class Americans." Yes! We need the trades people!

Yes but only if they go through the same process to be vetted like we would with legal foreign entry in the US. And they should also not be able to receive scholarship or financial aid, they should have to pay more than US citizens to help lower costs for US citizens and ensure they are not taking scholarships or funding that would go to US citizens.

Not from countries that are hostile towards the United States. Also, a 10% cap per institution would make it easier for Americans to get into these institutions Dan M

It’s seen more as a diplomatic move and a way to spread democracy. It’s not working, especially when it’s more of a transfer of Knowledge and how-to, so why are we letting our enemies learn at our tables?

The completely-biased Atlanta local CBS affiliate called it "Trump's newest attack on Harvard". Big. Surprise.

A program should be used similar to one used with students receiving financial aid for those headed for teaching school. 1. The applying foreign students should be carefully vetted with respect to affiliations with organizations antithetical to U.S. interests. 2. The prospective student should fill out a survey of their ideology. 3. Extensive questioning concerning their goals for using the education. If accepted, they should be required to serve an "internship" in their field in the U.S. of some determined length in a declared field of endeavor. An organization should grant a provisional position of employment upon completion of the course of study. The Visa necessitated should be granted with a clear avenue to U.S. citizenship if the student desires. The goal of any such arrangement should be to advance the goals of the U.S. Admittedly this plan is very restrictive, but is one that will be worthy of the investment of our financial resources.

With the enormous endowments that Harvard and other “elite” universities possess, they most certainly should not receive any Federal funding, period, and they should all start paying taxes on their obscene profits. Also, the 3 billion that the president wants to direct toward trade schools rather than elite universities would be money well spent!

I don't think they should be unilaterally excluded. But a requirement to pledge no engagement in illegal campus protest activities or any activisim at the risk of expulsion would be a step in the right direction.

It's not a simple Yes/No answer. Students should be vetted and followed up on what they do here. I think that's where Harvard and other Ivy League schools fail to show loyalty to our democracy. Since Harvard doesn't want to provide this information one can only assume the worse, which it probably is. And since it would put a burden on our FBI or Homeland security agencies, I don't think they should receive any discount in their student costs. And Harvard needs to provide additional funding to monitor these students while they are in the states.

Yes, but they should be properly vetted, pay the full price, and be booted out if they engage in any criminal activity

If up to me, I would allow NO foreign students to our colleges or universities. Foreigners are unpredictable and unreliable to keep their word. Why all the fuss about educating aliens? Why not Americans? I did not risk my life in another God forsaken country to make sure some alien, who thinks, speaks, and participates in the same acts as the people I was commissioned to kill, gets to reside in my country and disgrace the US and our allies. There are many American citizens who desire a good education but cannot afford it. The ivy league universities are useless, anti-American, Godless, propaganda organizations. Let them sink or swim on their own......no taxpayer money, no foreign students!!!

They should be allowed a student visa, if they protest, they are out. They are here to study, not have our rights as citizens

Yes, with strict probationary oversight

A pause and greater scrutiny would be reasonable.

Absolutely. The talent pool for engineering students here in America is meager at best. Add to that, virtually all American bread engineering students, especially at the graduated level simply either do not know how or refuse to work as hard as their foreign bread counterparts.

Considering the abysmal educational performance of students in the USA why would foreign students want to study here? Are they here to cause chaos?