Washington (AP) – Trump’s administration has canceled the Harvard University’s ability to involve international students in an escalating Ivy League school, saying that thousands of current students must move to other schools or leave the country.
The Homeland Security Department announced Thursday the action, saying that Harvard had created an unsafe campus environment, allowing “anti -American, prolistist agitators” to attack Jewish students in the camp. She also accused Harvard for coordinating the Chinese Communist Party, saying that she had accepted and trained members of the Chinese paramilitary group as early as 2024.
“This means that Harvard can no longer accept foreign students, and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status,” the agency said in a statement.
Harvard accepts nearly 6,800 foreign students in its town in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is more than a quarter of its students’ body. Most are graduates coming from more than 100 countries.
Harvard called the action illegal and said he was trying to give advice to students.
“This retaliatory action causes great damage to the Harvard community and our country and diminishes Harvard’s academic and research mission,” the university said in a statement.
The dispute arises on April 16. The NEEM request of the Homeland Security Secretary. The letter required Harvard to convey information about foreign students who could affect them by violence or protests that could otherwise cause their deportation.
On Thursday, a letter to Harvard said the school’s sanction was “a miserable result of Harvard’s failure to comply with simple reporting requirements.” This forbids Harvard from the admission of international students to the next 2025-26 school year.
Noem said Harvard could regain his ability to admit foreign students if he creates records of foreign students within 72 hours. Her updated request requires all records, including audio or video material, about foreign students involved in protests or dangerous activities in the camp.
“This administration is forcing Harvard to pay for the fostering of violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party in its town,” the noem said in a statement.
The Administration canceled Harvard’s certificate in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, which gives the school the opportunity to support international students to receive visas and attend school in the US.
Noem’s sanction opens up a new front in the Battle of Trump’s administration with Harvard. Harvard, the oldest and richest University of the Nation, was the first to openly disregard the requirements of the White House to restrict Palestinian protests and eliminate the policies of diversity, justice and inclusion.
The Federal Government responded by reducing $ 2.6 billion in Federal grants in Harvard, forcing it to finance most of its dilated research operation. President Donald Trump said he wanted to eliminate the status of a tax -free university.
Many Harvard’s sentences were executed through a federal working group of anti -Semitism, which says the university failed to protect Jewish students from harassment and violence in the national wave of Palestinian protests.
Homeland security officials repeated those concerns in a Thursday’s report. It provided examples, including the latest internal report in Harvard, finding that many Jewish students reported that they were facing discrimination or bias in the university town.
The Congress Republicans also arose about US universities and Chinese relations. Homeland security officials said Harvard had organized training for the Xinjiang’s production and construction housing as early as 2024. As evidence, he provided a reference to the Fox News article, which in turn quoted a letter from the Chamber’s Republican.
Ted Mitchell, president of the American Council for Education, called the latest action “illegal, little thinking.”
“I’m worried that it sends a very harsh effect to international students who want to come to America to study,” he said.
The Trump administration has used the system of legal status of international students as part of the broader attempts to fight higher education. What was once an administrative database became an enforcement measure, as immigration officials directly eliminated students’ legal status in the system.
These efforts were challenged in court, resulting in restoration of the status and the order of the whole country to prevent the administration from seeking further termination.
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Associated Press Writers Annie Ma Washington and Cheyanne Mumphrey Pho Finyks contributed to this report.
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