Trump administration bars Harvard from enrolling foreign students

By COLLIN BINKLEY Associated Press WASHINGTON AP The Trump administration revoked Harvard University s ability to enroll international students in its escalating battle with the Ivy League school saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country The Department of Homeland Defense released the action Thursday saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus habitat by allowing anti-American pro-terrorist agitators to assault Jewish students on campus It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese communist party saying it hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as in recent days as This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status the agency noted in a announcement Harvard enrolls almost foreign students at its campus in Cambridge Massachusetts accounting for more than a quarter of its participant body The bulk are graduate students coming from more than countries Related Articles Judge blocks Trump s order to dismantle the Schooling Department and fire employees Supreme Court tie vote dooms taxpayer funded Catholic charter school in Oklahoma Majority of US states now have laws banning or regulating cellphones in schools with more to follow Over boos Columbia University president notes Mahmoud Khalil s absence at graduation Greater part AAPI adults oppose college funding cuts and candidate deportations a new poll finds Harvard called the action unlawful and declared it s hastily working to provide guidance to students This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard population and our country and undermines Harvard s academic and research mission the university announced in a message The dispute stems from an April request from Homeland Assurance Secretary Kristi Noem The letter demanded that Harvard turn over information about foreign students that might implicate them in violence or protests that could otherwise lead to their deportation In a letter to Harvard on Thursday Noem commented the school s sanction is the unfortunate upshot of Harvard s failure to comply with simple reporting requirements Noem declared Harvard can regain its ability to host foreign students if it produces a trove of records on foreign students within hours Her updated request demands all records including audio or video footage of foreign students participating in protests or dangerous activity on campus This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence antisemitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus Noem commented in a message The administration revoked Harvard s certification in the Participant and Exchange Visitor Venture which gives the school the ability to sponsor international students to get their visas and attend school in the United States The Associated Press schooling coverage receives financial endorsement from multiple private foundations AP is solely responsible for all content Find AP s standards for working with philanthropies a list of supporters and funded coverage areas at AP org