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President Donald Trump is moving to prevent almost all foreign students from entering the country to attend Harvard University, in his last attempt to suffocate the Ivy League school from an international pipeline that represents a quarter of the student body.
In an order signed Wednesday, Trump said that he would endanger national security to allow Harvard to continue to welcome foreign students on his campus in Cambridge, Mass.
“I determined that the entry of the class of foreign nationals described above is detrimental to the interests of the United States because, in my opinion, the conduct of Harvard gave him an inappropriate destination for foreign students and researchers”, Trump written in order.
It is a new escalation in the fight of the White House with the oldest university of the nation. A federal court in Boston blocked the American Department of Internal Security To jump international students at Harvard last month. Trump’s order invokes another legal authority.
Trump invoked a large federal law which gives the president the power to block foreigners whose entry would be “prejudicial to the interests of the United States”. On Wednesday, he cited the same authority when the citizens of 12 countries would be forbidden to visit the United States And those of seven others faced restrictions. Trump’s Harvard ordinance also cites several other laws, including an burial of foreigners associated with terrorist organizations.
In a statement on Wednesday evening, Harvard said that he “would continue to protect his international students”.
“This is another measure of illegal reprisals taken by the administration in violation of the rights of the first Harvard amendment,” said university officials.
Harvard’s refusal is refused to submit to a series of requests made by the federal government. He recently increased after the Ministry of Internal Security said that Harvard refused to provide records linked to misconduct by foreign students.
Harvard says he respected the request, but the government said that the school’s response was insufficient.
Continue the building for months
The dispute has been built for months after the Trump administration demanded a series of policy and governance changes at Harvard, appealing to a home for liberalism and accusing it of tolerating anti -Semitism. Harvard challenged requests, claiming that they were in the autonomy of the university and represented a threat to the freedom of all American universities.
Trump officials have repeatedly noted the challenges and sought after new fronts to put Harvard pressure, cutting more than $ 2 billion in research grants and moving to end all federal contracts with university. The last threat has targeted around 7,000 Harvard international students, who represent half of the registrations in certain Harvard higher schools.
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“Admission to the United States to study in an American university” Elite “is a privilege, not a right,” said the Attorney General Pam Bondi in an article on X. “This Ministry of Justice will vigorously defend the proclamation of the president suspending the entry of new foreign students to the University of Harvard according to national security problems.”
Democratic representative Pramila Jayapal described the ridiculous measure and said it had nothing to do with national security.
“This is a barely veiled revenge ploy in Trump’s personal quarrel with Harvard, and continuous authoritarian surpassing against freedom of expression,” said Jayapal on the social media site X.
The order applies to all students who try to enter the United States to attend Harvard after the date of the decree. It provides an escape to allow students whose entry “would benefit the national interest”, as determined by federal officials.
Trump’s prescription relies that Harvard provided data on misconduct by only three students in response to the request for domestic security, and he did not have the details to assess whether federal action was necessary. Trump concluded that Harvard “does not fully report his disciplinary files for foreign students or does not seriously do on foreign students”.
“These actions and failures directly undermine the ability of the federal government to ensure that foreign nationals admitted on students’ visas or exchange visas for visitors remain in accordance with federal law,” said the order.
For foreign students already in Harvard, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio will determine if the visas should be dismissed, Trump wrote.
The order should last six months. Within 90 days, the administration will determine if it should be renewed, said the order.
A cable from the State Department sent last week to the American and consulating embassies said that federal officials will begin to examine the social media accounts of Visa candidates who plan to attend, to work at university or to visit Harvard for any sign of anti -Semitism.
In a legal file last week, Harvard officials said that the Trump administration’s efforts to prevent Harvard from registering international students had created an environment of “fear, concern and deep confusion”. Countless international students asked questions about the transfer of the university, said Harvard immigration director, Maureen Martin, in the file.
