What does it mean to be an international student, now, in a country that celebrated itself as the “land of the free” till recently? In the view of US Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem — enforcer-in-chief of the Donald Trump administration’s brazen attack on Harvard University — the onus hereon will be on the non-citizen student to prove her innocence. In effect, the order revoking Harvard’s access to the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) bars arguably the US’s most prestigious university from enrolling foreign students. The six conditions that the Homeland Security department has laid out include giving to the government “any and all audio or video footage in the possession of Harvard University of any protest activity involving a........

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