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Trump administration deepens crackdown on Harvard. President Donald Trump’s administration is escalating its battle with Harvard, threatening to revoke the university’s ability to host international students, who make up 27% of the campus population. The president also called for withdrawing the school’s tax-exempt status on April 15. On April 14, the government said it was freezing more than $2.2 billion in grants to Harvard, after the institution said it would defy demands to limit activism. More than 1,000 international students across American campuses have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated since mid-March, sometimes over infractions as minor as traffic violations.

They came to the US for degrees. They fear being deported without them.