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Immigration

Interim President Garber Speaks From Holyoke Chair at Commencement
Central Administration

Garber Joins More Than 180 University Leaders in Statement Against ‘Political Interference’ With Higher Ed

Harvard President Alan M. Garber ’76 signed a statement denouncing “unprecedented government overreach and political interference” in higher education on Tuesday.

Stephen Breyer Talk
Crime

Breyer Suggests Criminal Contempt Charges For Trump Officials at HLS Event

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer said the Trump administration could be held in criminal contempt over Kilmar Abrego’s deportation at a Harvard Law School speaker event on Friday, expressing optimism that Courts would hold the White House accountable.

People Walk in Harvard Yard
FAS

Harvard International Office Hires 4 New Staff As Student Visas Are Revoked Elsewhere

The Harvard International Office has increased its full-time staff by 20 percent amid the Trump administration’s sudden revocation of student and faculty visas at peer institutions, a University official said at a Tuesday Faculty of Arts and Sciences meeting.

Crowd at American Association of University Professors Rally
FAS

Harvard AAUP Asks For Injunction To Halt Trump Administration Attempts To Deport Students, Faculty

The Harvard chapter of the American Association of University Professors filed a motion on Tuesday for an injunction to pause the Trump administration’s efforts to deport noncitizen students and faculty for expressing pro-Palestine views while their lawsuit continues.

HLS Deportation Talk
Politics

Harvard Professor Questions Trump’s Alien Enemies Act Application at HLS Talk

Harvard Law School professor W. Neil Eggleston — former President Barack Obama’s White House Counsel and a member of President Bill Clinton’s Counsel Office — discussed President Donald Trump’s executive authority to trigger the Alien Enemies Act without following due process at a Tuesday lunch talk.

Harvard Medical School Quad
Politics

17 Senators Call for Release of HMS Researcher Kseniia Petrova

A group of 17 U.S. senators demanded the release of Harvard Medical School researcher Kseniia Petrova, who was detained in Boston Logan Airport after a personal trip to France in February, in a Monday letter.

Massachusetts State House
Boston

Mass. Lawmakers Call for Release of Tufts Student Taken by ICE

Top Mass. lawmakers are calling for the release of Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk following her arrest by federal immigration officers on the street last week over her pro-Palestine advocacy.

Dean Thomas Dunne
College

Dean of Students Addresses Immigration Fears in College-wide Email

Harvard College Dean of Students Thomas G. Dunne addressed student concerns over Harvard’s immigration enforcement policies in a Sunday email — the first College-wide email to explicitly address the rising number of immigration enforcement actions.

Harvard Law School
Politics

More Than 80 HLS Professors Denounce Trump Admin Attacks on Law Firms in Letter to Students

Roughly 70 percent of Harvard Law School’s professors accused the federal government of exacting retribution on lawyers and law firms for representing clients opposed by President Donald Trump in a Saturday night letter to the school’s student body.

Harvard Academic Workers Union
Labor

Harvard, Union Hash Out Immigration Policies Amid National ICE Raid Wave

Harvard agreed to provide non-tenure-track employees with paid leave during immigration proceedings, but declined to commit to sponsoring legal permanent residency applications in a contract counter proposal presented on Monday.

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Harvard Law School

HLS Admin Removes, Condemns Stickers Threatening Deportation of Pro-Palestine Student Activists

Harvard Law School officials took down two stickers that threatened pro-Palestine activists with deportation from a pole in the school’s main plaza, condemning them in a Thursday email to the full student body.

Protest at Smith Center
Harvard Square

Protesters Rally in the Square Against Grad Student Arrests at Columbia, Tufts

Roughly thirty non-Harvard affiliates protested in front of the Smith Campus Center on Thursday afternoon against the arrests of Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil and Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk by federal immigration enforcement.

Harvard International Office
Student Life

As Trump Floats New Travel Restrictions, International Students Look for Guidance from Harvard

One day after President Donald Trump issued an executive order threatening to deport students who broke the law during pro-Palestine protests, leaders of the Woodbridge International Society asked the Harvard International Office for clarity on how the order might impact students at Harvard.

March 5 Capitol
Boston

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 Holds Her Ground in House Oversight Committee Questioning

As congressional Republicans grilled Democratic mayors over their cities’ sanctuary policies in a Wednesday hearing, Boston Mayor Michelle Wu ’07 stuck to her message: Boston is the safest major city in the country, and its sanctuary policies help keep it that way.

Alejandro N. Mayorkas Speaks at Institute of Politics JFK Jr. Forum
IOP

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Slams Sanctuary Cities as ‘Irresponsible’ at IOP

Former Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro N. Mayorkas condemned sanctuary cities as “irresponsible” in a Wednesday Institute of Politics forum, criticizing Democratic mayors and governors who refuse to cooperate with immigration authorities.

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