Harvard offers Immigrant Justice Lab courses for students to help asylum seekers
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Harvard University is offering an “Immigrant Justice Lab” course this semester where Ivy League students can earn credit hours by contributing “research and writing to asylum seekers.”
HIST 123 is available to undergraduate students in the history department of the school’s social sciences faculty and operates through a partnership with the Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice, a nonprofit legal services organization that provides free representation to asylum seekers.
“This course trains and supports groups of graduate students to contribute to the research and writing of asylum seekers represented by attorneys at the Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice,” reads the course description.
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The description goes on to explain that the course will work on four parallel tracks, one of which “involves reflection and moral practice to advocate for the law, and the responsible expression of violence and injustice in foreign cultures.”
Harvard University offers an “Immigrant Justice Lab” history course that allows graduates to earn credit for conducting research and writing on asylum seekers in partnership with a non-profit legal group. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)
The course drew criticism on social media, including conservative school choice advocate and Americans for Fair Treatment Senior Fellow Corey DeAngelis, who told Fox News Digital that the class “prioritizes illegal immigrants over American students.”
“When America’s university becomes the premier, Harvard has become an unrepentant hotbed of vigilante activism, prioritizing illegal immigrants over American students — it’s gone too far, and the only solution is to strip the organization of all funding and its tax-exempt status,” DeAngelis told Fox.
“With billions in endowments, Harvard doesn’t need federal handouts — President Trump needs to go nuclear and withdraw all taxpayer money immediately to prevent top universities from using our money to help illegal immigrants and advance their agendas,” DeAngelis said.
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The Mabel Center, whose attorney students will work with them during the semester, is funded almost entirely by donations from “individual, foundation, and corporate donors,” according to the organization’s website and IRS data.
The program has drawn criticism from conservative advocates who say it reflects “awakened activism,” while Harvard and the nonprofit did not respond to requests for comment. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Fox News Digital reached out to the Mabel Center, but did not receive a response.
According to Harvard’s website, the scholarship has been awarded for a long time, starting at least in 2023.
The University’s Center for International Affairs is also planning to host an “Immigration Justice Lab Conference” in March that is open to the public.
“The Immigrant Justice Lab at Harvard is developing a project dedicated to generating new research on the contemporary social conditions that immigrants face in the United States and making that research available to immigrants and their lawyers, and indirectly to asylum officials and immigration judges,” reads the conference description.
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The conference comes as Department of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth severed ties with the Ivy League school earlier this month, saying the university “has woken up.”
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth recently severed ties with Harvard, calling the university “rebellious” and announcing that the Pentagon would end certain graduate programs and fellowships for members who serve there. (Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP)
“There are too many members of the unit who clearly hate our soldiers. They put our soldiers in a bad light and oppose anyone who challenges their leftist political leanings, while charging tuition. It’s not fair,” Hegseth said. “They have replaced open questioning and honest debate with rigid orthodoxy.”
“Harvard is up; the War Department is not,” added Hegseth.
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The DoW secretary said the department will be completing degree-level training, fellowships, and certificate programs for active members beginning next school year.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard University, but did not receive a response.
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