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highplainsdem

(55,504 posts)
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 10:55 PM Apr 16

Trump administration says Harvard may lose ability to enroll foreign students

Source: Reuters

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Harvard University will lose its ability to enroll foreign students if it does not meet demands from the Trump administration to share information on some visa holders, marking the government's latest escalation against the educational institution.

Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem also announced on Wednesday the termination of two DHS grants totaling more than $2.7 million to Harvard.

Noem said she wrote a letter to Harvard demanding records on what she called the "illegal and violent activities" of Harvard's foreign student visa holders by April 30.

"And if Harvard cannot verify it is in full compliance with its reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege of enrolling foreign students," Noem said in a statement.

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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-homeland-security-chief-cancels-two-grants-harvard-university-2025-04-17/

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Bernardo de La Paz

(54,818 posts)
1. Such an obvious naked power grab with no rationale other than punishing the schools all his cabinet went to. Idiocy. .nt
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 10:58 PM
Apr 16

NoMoreRepugs

(11,227 posts)
2. Again I say Harvard's law and constitutional professors vs the Trump squad
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 10:58 PM
Apr 16

seems to favor Harvard in a legal tussle IMO.

ancianita

(40,328 posts)
4. Homeland can't make a private university, with private funding, "report" to the government.
Wed Apr 16, 2025, 11:23 PM
Apr 16

I'd love for Laurence Tribe to be all over this.
I'd love to see him standing before his former student, John Roberts, telling him the facts and the law.

Wiz Imp

(4,759 posts)
5. I'm pretty sure that the government has no authority to tell a PRIVATE University
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 12:02 AM
Thursday

what students they can and can't enroll.

kelly1mm

(5,697 posts)
6. How do they enroll a foreign student without the government giving them a student visa? nt
Thu Apr 17, 2025, 12:27 AM
Thursday
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