Archive Photo: People walk on Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 15, 2025. Photo credit: Faith Ninivgi
The president of the United States, Donald Trump, is moving to block almost all foreign students to enter the country to attend Harvard University, his last attempt to drown the Ivy League school from an international pipe that represents a quarter of the student body.
In an executive order signed on Wednesday, Trump declared that national security would allow Harvard to continue organizing foreign students on their campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“I have determined that the entry of the class of foreign citizens described above is dirty for the interests of the United States because, in my opinion, Harvard’s behavior has made it an inappropriate destination for Forer students and researchers.” Triumph.
It is a greater climbing in the struggle of the White House with the oldest and most rich university of the nations. A federal court in Boston blocked the Department of National Security, prohibits Harvard students from last week. Trump’s order entirely a different legal authority.
Trump invoked a broad federal law that gives the President authority to block foreigners whose entry would be “harmful to the interests of the United States.” On Wednesday, he cited the same authority by announcing that citizens from 12 countries would be forbidden to visit the United States and those of another seven would face restrictions. Trump’s Harvard order also cites several other laws, including one that except foreigners associated with terrorist organizations.
In a statement on Wednesday night, Harvard said “will continue to protect its international students.” “This is another illegal retaliation step given by the administration in violation of the rights of the first Harvard amendment,” university officials said.
Harvard’s refusal voice to undergo a series of demands made by the federal government. It has been recently intensified after the National Security Department said Harvard refused to provide records related to miscarriage by foreign students.
Harvard says he has communed with the application, but the government said the school’s response was insufficient.
The dispute has been built for months after the Trump administration demanded a series of changes in politics and governance in Harvard, qualifying it as seals or liberalism and accusing it of tolerating anti-Judorium harassment. Harvard challenged the demands, saying that they locked the autonomy of the university and represented a threat to the freedom of all American universities.
Trump officials have repeatedly raised bets and sought new fronts at Harvard pressure, reducing more than $ 2.6 billion in research grants and moving to end all federal contracts with the university. The last threat has signed up for approximately 7,000 international Harvard students, who represent half of the registration in some Harvard postgraduate schools.
“The admission to the United States to study at an American university of elite is a privilege, not a right,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi in a position on X. “This Department of Justice will vigorously defend the proclamation of the president who suspends the entry of a new property of new Forestrts concerns.”
Representative Pramila Jayopal, D-Wash., He shut up the ridiculous measure and said it has nothing to do with national security.
“It is a ploy of thin revenge in Trump’s personal dispute with Harvard, and continues authoritarian overreach against freedom of expression,” Jayapal said at the social media site X.
The order applies to all students trying to enter the United States to attend Harvard after the date of the Executive Order. It provides an escape to allow students whose entry “would benefit the national interest,” as determined by federal officials.
Trump’s order alleges that Harvard provides misconduct data on the part of only three students in response to the national security application, and lacked details to assess whether federal action was needed. Trump concluded that Harvard “is not completely informing that they are disciplinary records for foreign students or not seriously monitor their foreign students.” “These actions and failures directly undermine the federal government’s ability to ensure that foreign citizens admitted to the visas of student or exchange visitors continue to comply with federal law,” said the order.
For foreign students already in Harvard, Secretary of State Marco Rubio will determine if the visas must be revoked, Trump wrote.
The order is scheduled to last six months. Within 90 days, the administration will determine if it must be renewed, the order said.
A state department cable sent last week to the embassies and consulates of the United States said that federal officials will begin to review the social media accounts of visa applicants who plan to attend, work at the University of Visit Harvard to obtain signs of anti -Semitism.
In a judicial presentation last week, Harvard officials said that the efforts of the Trump administration to prevent Harvard from registering international students has created an environment or “deep concern, concern and confusion.” Innumerable international students have asked about the transfer of the University, said Harvard Immigration Services, Maureen Martin, in the presentation.
Posted on June 5, 2025
