Harvard students, faculty rally in support of international students

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Harvard students and professors rallied in support of international students on Tuesday (May 27) just days after a U.S. judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking the school's ability to enroll foreign students. - REUTERS

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00:00First our funding, now our friends!

00:05We will fight until this end!

00:10We stand here today to affirm that international students are our peers, our classmates, and our friends.

00:19This has nothing to do with combating anti-Semitism.

00:25Anti-Semitism is a real problem.

00:27It's a problem at Harvard, it's a problem in our country.

00:31But these policies will do nothing to combat this age-old hatred.

00:35Instead, they are designed to divide us apart.

00:39Donald Trump doesn't actually care about Harvard.

00:42He wants to take Harvard down because universities stand for free ideas and for free speech.

00:52Free ideas and free speech get in the way of authoritarians.

00:56And so like authoritarians before him in places like Russia, like Turkey, and like Hungary,

01:02Donald Trump is attacking universities.

01:05And we'll talk to you about two moreministerial missions in the United States.

01:06So we're doing a lot of research, as well, to believe in us.

01:11We need to be a woman who will have heard of a Russian government.

01:15That's a lot of research.

01:17Now we're going to be able to do nothing in our country where we're interested.

01:19Now we're going to be able to listen to our students.

01:20Let's go to our next couple of our students.

01:21We're going to walk to our next three-year students with our team.

01:23We're going to walk to our next couple of our students,

01:25let's walk to our next panel.

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