“绝对震惊。”“难以置信的残忍。”特朗普阻止哈佛大学入学的举动令哈佛国际学生深感不安

【中美创新时报2025 年 5 月 22 日编译讯】特朗普政府取消哈佛大学招收外国学生资格后，哈佛大学的国际学生群体陷入了震惊。各种疑问在群聊中迅速蔓延，甚至通过疯狂的电话交流也引发了讨论。《波士顿环球报》记者朱莉娅·麦克唐纳·涅托·德尔·里奥，希拉里·伯恩斯和卡米洛·丰塞卡对此作了下述报道。

下周，毕业生们能毕业吗？成千上万渴望获得哈佛文凭的国际学生的梦想将如何破灭？他们中有人还能合法留在美国吗？

“我努力争取的一切，难道就这么要泡汤了吗？”来自奥地利的大二学生卡尔·莫尔登问道。“一切都太不确定了。”

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美国国土安全部部长克里斯蒂·诺姆在周四发给哈佛大学的一封信中，谴责哈佛大学拒绝交出涉及“不当行为和其他违法行为”的国际学生的记录，这些违法行为将导致外国学生不被录取或被驱逐出校，并拒绝满足其他要求。

诺姆写道：“必须采取相应措施，向哈佛大学和所有希望享受招收外国学生特权的大学发出明确信号，即特朗普政府将执法并根除社会和校园中的反美主义和反犹太主义的邪恶。”

来自巴基斯坦的哈佛学生、本科生研究会联合主席阿卜杜拉·沙希德·西亚尔（Abdullah Shahid Sial）周四在消息传出后立即采取行动。他撰写声明，与校方规划下一步行动，并忙于接听电话询问。

“人们比以往任何时候都更加恐惧，”西亚尔说。“这件事远比个人经历的要严重得多。这不仅仅是哈佛国际学生的问题，而是世界各地的国际学生的问题……我们希望确保人们能够站出来反对。”

周四下午，哈佛校园几乎空无一人，狂风暴雨袭击着少数几个还没放暑假的学生。《波士顿环球报》在校园里联系了几名学生——其中包括国际学生——他们不愿谈论此事，表示担心同学们明年可能无法返校。

但莫尔登一直公开反对特朗普政府向哈佛大学施压的策略，他和少数国际学生坚持认为哈佛大学“反抗特朗普是在做正确的事情”。

“但显然，成为这场斗争的受害者——这很糟糕，也很令人悲伤，”莫尔登补充道。

许多来自美国的学生深切关心他们的国际朋友，他们说这些国际朋友是哈佛社区不可或缺的一部分。

哈佛大学三年级学生、犹太裔学生玛雅·博德尼克 (Maya Bodnick) 表示，她对特朗普政府的最新声明感到“非常震惊”。

“这侵犯了言论自由，因为特朗普政府不喜欢哈佛大学处理以色列等问题的方式，因此他们要惩罚这所大学，”博德尼克说。“这代表着民主规范的堕落。”

哈佛大学二年级学生艾琳·皮内达（Aileen Pineda）也担心她的许多外国留学生朋友会遭遇什么。当朋友们意识到他们可能再也无法在校园里见面时，她的群聊里充满了疯狂的短信。“我们不知道接下来会发生什么，”她说。

一些学生质疑，如果没有国际学生，他们的课程将如何推进，或者能否继续推进。教育研究生院的硕士生伊丽莎·雷（Eliza Ray）将于下周毕业。她表示，该校近一半的学生都是国际学生。尽管如此，她认为学校不应该退缩。“我认为我们必须展现出某种反抗精神，”雷说道。

来自瑞典的大四学生利奥·格尔登 (Leo Gerdén)是哈佛大学最敢于反击特朗普政府持续攻击的国际学生之一。他表示，周四的消息“对我们所有人来说都是绝对可怕的，绝对毁灭性的”。

“真的很难接受正在发生的事情，”格尔登说。过去几周，他一直担心移民和海关执法局（ICE）的人员会在街上逮捕他，就像塔夫茨大学博士生鲁梅莎·奥兹图尔克（Rümeysa Öztürk）的遭遇一样。鲁梅莎·奥兹图尔克随后在路易斯安那州的一个拘留中心被拘留了大约六周。

当格尔登读着诺姆写给哈佛大学的信时，他试图理解这对他一周后的毕业典礼意味着什么。他欣喜若狂地获得了经济学和政府学学位，并期待着家人前来参加庆祝活动；他的母亲和祖母第一次来校园看望他。

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但他尤其为秋季返校的国际学生和即将入学的新生感到难过。

“四年前，我考上哈佛，那真是我一生中最美好的一天，”格尔登说。“你的整个梦想都被夺走了。这太残酷了。”

奥地利学生莫尔登表示，他不得不面对一个残酷的现实：他可能无法在哈佛完成学业。他正在考虑去英国留学。

“我必须考虑我要去哪里，去哪个国家，我还会是家吗？”他说，“我还会是哈佛的学生吗？”

莫尔登还指出，他目前靠助学金生活，因此很难找到其他学校能提供与该校同等的资助。“学校的助学金真是太慷慨了，”他谈到学校的助学金时说道。

据哈佛大学统计，约有27%的学生来自国际学生。学生们表示，这正是哈佛大学如此优秀的原因。

“现在，我们所有的一切都被剥夺了，因为我们被当作特朗普和哈佛大学之间斗争的筹码，”格尔登说。“我不想说哈佛的末日已经来临，因为我真的希望我们能尽可能地战斗下去。但如果这种情况真的发生了，那么哈佛就再也不是以前那个哈佛了。”

《波士顿环球报》员工迈克·达米亚诺对本报告做出了贡献。

题图：5月22日，剑桥的哈佛园。Danielle Parhizkaran/《环球邮报》员工

附原英文报道：

‘Absolutely horrified.’ ‘Incredibly cruel.’ Harvard international students reeling in wake of Trump move to block enrollment.

By Giulia McDonnell Nieto del Rio, Hilary Burns and Camilo Fonseca Globe Staff,Updated May 22, 2025

Harvard Yard in Cambridge on May 22.Danielle Parhizkaran/Globe Staff

The international student community at Harvard University is reeling after the Trump administration revoked the school’s ability to enroll foreign students on campus. Questions spread quickly across group chats, through frenzied phone conversations.

Will seniors be able to graduate next week? What will happen to the dreams of thousands of international students, hinging on a Harvard diploma? Will any of them be able to lawfully stay in the United States?

“Everything that I‘ve worked so hard for, is it just going to fall apart?” asked Karl Molden, a sophomore from Austria. “Everything is so uncertain.”

In a letter sent to the university on Thursday, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem condemned Harvard’s refusal to turn over records related to international students involved in “misconduct and other offenses that would render foreign students inadmissible or removable” and meet other demands.

“Consequences must follow to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that want to enjoy the privilege of enrolling foreign students, that the Trump administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism in societies and campuses,” Noem wrote.

Abdullah Shahid Sial, a Harvard student from Pakistan, and the co-president of the undergraduate study body, jumped into action on Thursday as soon as the news broke. He was crafting statements, planning out next steps with the university, and hectically answering phone queries.

“People are more scared than ever,” Sial said. “This is a story which is way bigger than an individual. It’s not just about internationals at Harvard, it’s about internationals everywhere … we want to make sure that people put up an opposition.”

Harvard Yard was nearly deserted on Thursday afternoon, as wind and rain battered the few students who had not left for summer break. Several students approached by the Globe on campus — including international students – were reluctant to discuss the situation, expressing fear that their peers would not be able to return next year.

But Molden, who has been speaking out publicly against the Trump administration’s tactics to pressure the university, along with a small number of international students, stood by the sentiment that Harvard has been “doing the right thing by defying Trump.”

“But obviously, becoming a victim of this fight — it sucks, and it’s saddening,” Molden added.

Many students from the United States were deeply concerned for their international friends, who they said were integral to the Harvard community.

Maya Bodnick, a junior at Harvard who is Jewish, said she is “absolutely horrified” by the Trump administration’s latest announcement.

“It is a violation of freedom of speech because the Trump administration dislikes how Harvard has handled issues, like Israel, and as a result they are punishing the university,” Bodnick said. “It represents a degradation of democratic norms.”

Harvard sophomore Aileen Pineda, too, was worried about what would happen to many of her friends who were foreign students. Her group chats lit up with frantic texts as her friends realized they may not see each other on campus again. “We don’t know what’s going to happen anymore,” she said.

Some students questioned how, or if, their programs would move forward without international students. Eliza Ray, a master’s student at the Graduate School of Education, who is set to graduate next week, said that nearly half of those enrolled there are international. Still, she doesn’t think the university should back down. “I think it’s really important we show some sort of defiance,” Ray said.

Leo Gerdén, a senior from Sweden who has been one of the most outspoken international students on Harvard’s campus fighting back against the Trump administration’s ongoing attacks, said the news on Thursday was “absolutely horrible, absolutely devastating, for all of us.”

“It is truly hard to process what is happening,” Gerdén said. He has already spent the last few weeks worried that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would apprehend him on the street, like what happened to Rümeysa Öztürk, a doctoral student at Tufts University who was then detained for about six weeks in a detention center in Louisiana.

As Gerdén read Noem’s letter to Harvard, he was trying to understand what this would mean for his graduation, which is a week away. He was ecstatic to get his degree in economics and government and was looking forward to his family coming for the celebration; his mother and his grandmother were visiting him on campus for the first time.

But he especially feels for all the international students who were to come back in the fall and incoming freshmen.

“Four years ago, when I got into Harvard, it was truly the best day of my life,” Gerdén said. “Your entire dream is being taken away from you. It is just so cruel.”

Molden, the Austrian student, said he is having to face the harsh reality that he might not be able to finish his education at Harvard. He is looking into some options in the United Kingdom.

“I have to think about where I‘m going to be, what country, will I be home?” he said. “Will I still be a Harvard student?”

Molden also noted that he was on financial aid, so it would be difficult to find another school that would match the financial support that the university had provided. “It’s so generous,” he said about the school’s financial aid.

About 27 percent of Harvard students are international, according to the university. And that is what makes the school so great, students say.

“Now, all of that is currently being taken away from us because we’re being used as poker chips in a battle between Trump and Harvard,” Gerdén said. “I don’t want to say that it’s the end of Harvard, because I really want us to fight as much as we can. But if this actually happens, then the place is not going to be the same anymore.”

Mike Damiano of the Globe staff contributed to this report.