Friday, May 23, 2025

Non-Americans Go Home!

American education for Americans, taught the American Way!
Noem is the numbskull who thinks habeas corpus is a legal principle that permits Trump to deport foreigners. The order was predicated on the pre-textual claim that Harvard is fostering antisemitism, when in fact the antisemite in chief, Donald Trump, invited the two leading antisemites in the U.S., Nick Fuentes and Kayne West, to have dinner with him last year at Mar-a-Lago.

As evidenced by all the surrounding circumstances, including most notably the Trump administration’s letter to Harvard on April 11, 2025, Noem’s order is a blatant authoritarian effort to take control of Harvard. The April 11th letter demonstrates the Trump administration’s goal to dictate who can be admitted, what courses can be taught, what professors they can hire and who should be disciplined for exercising their First Amendment right to free speech under the Constitution.

Today, Harvard sued Trump to nullify Noem’s order. The lawsuit correctly alleges that Noem’s order is “clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students.” Harvard will likely move for a temporary restraining order (TRO) to stop the enforcement of Noem’s illegal order. 

This motion will start the process to remove Noem’s order permanently. After the TRO, Harvard will ultimately move for a permanent injunction. The process will be similar to the one the law firm Perkins Coie pursued in permanently reversing Trump’s unconstitutional executive order against the law firm.

But for the Supreme Court’s opinion last year granting Trump presidential immunity for “official acts,” Trump’s and Noem’s actions would violate federal criminal law for defrauding the government. By basing their order on an official order from Homeland Security, their actions constitute immunized “official acts.” Since the Supreme Court ruled that a prosector cannot get behind the true motive and intent of the “official act,” even if it evinces a criminal purpose, there is no way the criminal law can hold accountable Trump and Noem.

Regardless of court intervention, the damage created by Trump’s actions will have a negative impact on the ability of Harvard and other American universities to attract the best and brightest. This move, along with the Trump administration’s massive cuts on research, will create a significant brain drain that will only benefit our foreign adversaries. Already, a major Chinese University, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, is offering to enroll the international students who cannot stay at Harvard. Bottom line, this will only serve to make China great again. MCGA.

Educating international students is critical for developing U.S. soft power that educates the best and the brightest from overseas, many of whom return to their counties and assume leadership positions. Rather than being exposed to American democracy, they will instead be indoctrinated with Chinese authoritarianism.
American authoritarianism for American students!

"Revoking Harvard’s certification is unlawful many times over," the judge wrote in her order. "It is a pillar of our constitutional system that the government cannot 'invok[e] legal sanctions and other means of coercion' to police private speech, especially when the government’s treatment is animated by viewpoint discrimination. The government’s effort to punish the University for its refusal to surrender its academic independence and for its perceived viewpoint is a patent violation of the First Amendment."
The Administration still thinks this is their winning propaganda point:
"If only Harvard cared this much about ending the scourge of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators on their campus they wouldn't be in this situation to begin with," Jackson said. "Harvard should spend their time and resources on creating a safe campus environment instead of filing frivolous lawsuits."
I suspect most Americans are still worried about the price of eggs; and gas; and rising costs at Walmart.

4 comments:

  1. The irony is rich that part of DHS' demands includes ensuring "viewpoint diversity"...

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  2. Some viewpoints are more equal than others.

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  3. The xenophobia of this administration is already starting to harm colleges. Yesterday I saw an article how Union College, a small liberal arts college in upstate NY failed to meet its goal for students attending next autumn. The shortfall was mostly foreign students scared off by Trump. The college is going to have to dip into its endowment to cover the costs that previously would have been bourn by foreign students paying full tuition. Next year for most colleges will be worse, the number of graduating seniors will be substantially less than this year, it will be 18 years from the 2008 recession, a consequence of the downturn being a drop in the birthrate. Unlike previous recessions, the birthrate never recovered when the economy improved. The drop is students is particularly difficult, because the families that stopped having children where most often those in the middle class that send their kids to school. The double whammy of less foreign and less US students will likely drive a number of smaller, regional, liberal arts colleges under. Harvard and Yale have massive endowments and sufficient prestige that they won't lack for students and money, but outside of that thin layer of wealthy and competitive schools, the loss of students is going to very difficult in the long term (and surprisingly short term too.)

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  4. It is no end of wild to realize these people, offered the choice of sharing a comfortable couch, would take the dunghill so long as they had it to themselves. Human nature can be a really twisted thing.

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