Trump admin says Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students

Harvard students protestation threats from Trump medication against planetary students

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Harvard University tin nary longer enroll overseas students, the Department of Homeland Security said Thursday, escalating the Trump administration's efforts to exert power implicit the Ivy League school.

A connection from the Department of Homeland Security said existing overseas students astatine Harvard indispensable transportation oregon suffer their ineligible presumption successful the United States.

About 1 successful 4 Harvard students are international, according to schoolhouse data. 

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem said Harvard is "fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party connected its campus." She said the enactment against Harvard volition "serve arsenic a warning" to different universities.

Last month, Noem demanded elaborate records connected Harvard's overseas pupil visa holders' "illegal and convulsive activities."   

"It is simply a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll overseas students and payment from their higher tuition payments to assistance pad their multibillion-dollar endowments," Noem said successful a statement. "Harvard had plentifulness of accidental to bash the close thing. It refused."

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said Harvard has go "a hot-bed of anti-American, anti-Semitic, pro-terrorist agitators."

"They person repeatedly failed to instrumentality enactment to code the wide problems negatively impacting American students and present they indispensable look the consequences of their actions," Jackson said successful a statement.

Harvard says the administration's determination is unlawful.

"We are afloat committed to maintaining Harvard's quality to big planetary students and scholars, who hail from much than 140 countries and enrich the University – and this federation – immeasurably. We are moving rapidly to supply guidance and enactment to members of our community," a Harvard spokesperson said successful a statement. "This retaliatory enactment threatens superior harm to the Harvard assemblage and our country, and undermines Harvard's world and probe mission."  

The determination to artifact Harvard from enrolling overseas students comes arsenic the Trump medication cuts billions of dollars successful federal grants to the school. President Trump besides said this period that his medication volition beryllium taking distant the university's tax-exempt status.

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