Trump’s attack on Harvard will not make America great again

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The writer is a professor of a professor of Harvard University and the former department of the White House Council

I limit myself to the economic arguments and analyzes where I was in my garbage and myself a practice or at least a comparable advantage. There is a lot to talk about the economic madness of the Trump Administration The effect is more than 6,500 Harvard students – A quarter of our student body. But I am so shocked, the real reason I am sad, angry and amazed is personal.

I lived with my best friends, a Canadian and South Africa during the Sophomore year in Harvard. I encountered new ideas and fresh prospects through them and many other international friends and just had fun. Some were staying in the United States and were doctors, scientists, journalists and businessmen. Others returned home, but with them had a constant connection and suggestion.

After graduating, the tables were turned and I was a foreign student at the London School of Economics. I did not stay in the UK – Although my education payments, I felt strong about our unique relations. The British government has come back to me in a panel of a panel on a panel in a panel in a panel in a panel, and the goodwill of the good intentions.

I returned to make a doctor of economics in Harvard. Most of the cohortum were foreigners on visas in the United States. Harvard himself thinks that Americans and primarily accept Americans – only 15 percent of the bachelor’s students are foreign. As for the doctor of philosophy, Harvard is looking for the most prominent potential scientists from where they live and many are almost 96 percent of the world’s population.

Most of my international classmates were left and now work in the US research departments. Others went to other leading universities in the world, governments and international organizations. I have benefited from me – and when I served in the US White House of President Barack Obama, he said. Recognizing the people in the French Treasury and the Bank of England was useful during the Eurozone crisis and BREXIT.

Now I returned to Harvard teaching. One of my students is one of a village in a village where his family flies to a plane before. Another came to anyone from a small Italian city that no one sent to American University. Others are refugees from war-torn countries. Last month, half of the students showed a faculty lunch in a group of economic sciences. Many will return home after graduation, they will apply what they learned here. Others remain here and contribute.

Thus, I think about these hundreds of friends, students and colleagues when I think the Trump leadership is doing. But even if I put these feelings aside, the economic value is very large. The United States is a world leader in higher education. Organizations given to the degree are 4 million people, employees and employees support managers and teachers. The United States receives $ 50 billion every year – exports.

Many foreign students do not pay as long as they are here; They remain and add to our workforce, increase productivity and become innovative, founders and intellectual leaders. Without international students and immigrants, NVIDIA or Satya Nadella and Sundar Pichai, Microsoft and Google cannot have a CEOS – or even an employee of Jensen Huang, such as Elon Musk.

The power of America has never failed to attract the talents of the small percentage of the world living here, not the talents of the world’s residents. Progress from modern medicine to the Internet – often watches frequently for global cooperation in universities, including Harvard.

I hope that the courts say that the arbitrary sweeping claim is illegal for the claim of the arbitrary sweep to carry out an unsolved punishment of an unsupported lawsuit, including a bad claim of anti-Semitism.

I am a great fan of opening to trade and capital flows. But the opinion and people are more critical. As other universities, Harvard is an epitome of this openness. Not surprisingly, President Trump is targeting us. These sharp actions should be stopped for the sake of America and the world.