Trump's Harvard -Visa threat could chew some of the school sports teams

Cambridge, mass. (AP) -Some of Harvard's sports teams would be practically wiped out by a decision by the Trump government announced on Thursday, which the Ivy League School would do with the country's largest sports program for international student visa not justified.

Seven of the eight rowers in the heavyweight crew team of men who have just won the Eastern Sprints title -and on the way to the national championships -listed international hometowns on the school's website. Mick Thompson, the leading scorer last season, and Jack Bar, who was captain, belong to a handful of Canadians on the men's hockey squad. 10 of the 13 members of the male pumpkin team and more than half of the women's football and Golf service plans also list foreign hometowns.

Harvards 42 Varsity sports teams are most in the nation, and Sportico reported last month The 21% of the headmaster players for the 2024-25 or 196 of 919 Athletes-Hatten International High town. The website found that some US citizens or owners of Green Card could be that in an escalating struggle that comes from the administration's claims would not need an international visa that the school could not protect Jewish students from anti -Semitism.

The Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard's ability to record international students on Thursday and said that the school created an unsafe campus environment by enabling “anti -American, terrorist agitators” to attack Jewish students on campus. The move could force up to 6,800 foreign students from the school outside of Boston – more than a quarter of its entire enrollment – to transfer or leave the country.

Harvard illegally described the campaign and said it was working on giving the students instructions. President Alan Garber found that he himself was Jewish, said last month after filing a lawsuit to comply with a federal financing freezing that the school would continue to fight with the urgency that it demands if we comply with our obligations in accordance with the law. This is not just our legal responsibility. It is our moral imperative. “

Erin McDermott, sports director of Harvard, previously rejected an interview request from the Associated Press in order to obtain the potential effects of the Visa ban. A spokesman for Harvard Athletics on Thursday referred a request to the school's main information office on Thursday, which did not react immediately. The AP also requested a comment from three Harvard coaches who did not answer.

The Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney, a former Harvard Hockey player, refused to comment when she contacted the AP. The governor of Massachusetts, Maura Healey, a democrat who played in Harvard Basketball, said the athletes belong to 85,000 foreign students who come to the state to study, conduct research, found companies and create jobs and innovations. “

“President Trump punishes our students and violates our economy, all as part of his agenda, to silence everyone who does not agree with him,” she said. “The only ones that benefit from Donald Trump's actions are China and other countries that are already recruiting these students. First of all, it is the opposite of America.”