A pedestrian with Harvard University of Harvard University of Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Wednesday, April 16, 2025.
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The Trump administration prevented Harvard University Thursday from the registration of future international students and the conservation of foreign students currently registered.
THE Department of Internal Security said he had revoked Harvard Program of students and exchange visitors Certification because the leadership of the private school “has created a dangerous campus environment by allowing anti-American and pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically attack individuals, including many Jewish students, and to obstruct their learning environment in the past”.
“Many of these agitators are foreign students,” said the DHS.
DHS secretary Kristi Noem has threatened to revoke Harvard’s SEVP certification if the university did not comply with his request for information on the alleged “crime and misconduct of foreign students on the campus,” said the department.
“Harvard University has cheerfully refused to provide the required information requested and has ignored a follow -up of the Office of the General Council of the Department,” said the DHS.
Noem, in a statement Thursday after ordering the revocation of the SEVP, said: “Let this serve as a warning to all universities and university institutions across the country.”
Harvard called Noem’s action “illegal”.
“We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard’s ability to welcome our international students and academics, who come from more than 140 countries and enrich the university – and this nation – immeasurably,” the university said in a statement.
“We work quickly to provide advice and support to members of our community,” said the statement.
“This reprisal action threatens serious damage to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission.”
Dhs said that in addition to prohibiting the registration of international future students, “existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status”.
The revocation was reported for the first time by the New York Times.
Since the fall 2023 semester, international students included more than 27% of Harvard’s total registrationAccording to university data.
As Noem’s order has become public, a federal judge in Oakland, California, published a injunction Against President Donald Trump and Noem prohibiting them from putting an end to the legal status of international students pending the outcome of a trial contesting the cessation of the legal status of several of these students.
The injunction could prevent the Trump administration from acting on its threat against international students currently registered in Harvard.
In a statement on Thursday, Noem said: “This administration is responsible for Harvard responsible for promoting violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.”
“It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition fees to help win their endowments of several billion dollars. Harvard has had the opportunity to do the right thing,” said Noem.
“He refused.”
“They lost their certification of the program of students and exchange visitors because of their non-compliance with the law.”
The Trump Administration in April appeared $ 2.2 billion in federal subsidies at Harvard, hours after the university has rejected the requirements for the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion programs and to assess international students for ideological concerns.
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