The Trump administration has banned Harvard to allow international students to register at the university, after the school lost the ability to use the student and exchange visitors program.
The SEVP program allows non -citizens to study at the university under a specific visa.
“As a result of its refusal to comply with multiple applications to provide the Department of National Security, pertinent information while perpetuating an insecure campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-hamas sympathy and employs racist diversity, equity and inclusion policies, has lost this privilege” of the Department of Security of the Head of the City of City in the university of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of a letter of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of a letter of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university of the university.
Harvard said the Trump administration movement is not legal.
“The government’s action is illegal. We are totally committed to maintaining Harvard’s ability to house our international students and academics, which come from more than 140 countries and enrich the university, and this nation, in a immeasurable way. We are working quickly to provide guidance and support for the members of our community,” School said Thursday in a statement. “This reprisal action threatens serious damage to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission.”
People walk through Harvard Yard on Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachussetts, April 15, 2025.
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Noem wrote to Harvard in April requesting that a section of information to the DHS be delivered so that the school retains its Sevp status.
According to the letter, he asked Harvard to give information about the illegal “known” illegal activity of the Student Visa head; violent activity; threats for students or teachers; disciplinary actions taken as a result of being involved in a protest; Information on whether the student obstructed the school learning environment; And the courses that the student is taking to maintain the state of the visa.
Noem said that the school did not provide adequate information in response, and that it is a “privilege, not a right” for students to study at American universities.
“The revocation of its certification of the student and exchange visitors program means that Harvard is prohibited from having aliens about the non-immigrant state F- O J for the 2025-2026 academic school year,” he writes. “This downtown also means that existing foreigners in the non -immigrant state F or J must transfer to another university to maintain their non -immigrant state.”
Noem said that “the consequences must continue to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that wish to enjoy the privilege of registering foreign students, which the Trump administration will apply the law and obtain the evils of anti -Americanism and anti -Semitism in society and campuses.”
In a statement to ABC News, the White House spokesman, Abigail Jackson, said Harvard now faces the “consequences of their actions” and repeated that having international students registered in their school is a “privilege.”
“Harvard has turned his institution, once great into a seedbed of anti -American, anti -Semitic and proterrorist agitators. They have repeatedly failed to take measures to address the generalized problems that negatively affect US students and now they must face the consequences of their actions. Registering foreign students is a privilege, not a right,” Jackson said.
