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WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump is moving to artifact astir each overseas students from entering the state to be Harvard University, his latest attempt to choke the Ivy League schoolhouse from an planetary pipeline that accounts for a 4th of the pupil body.
In an enforcement bid signed Wednesday, Trump declared that it would jeopardize nationalist information to let Harvard to proceed hosting overseas students connected its field successful Cambridge, Massachusetts.
“I person determined that the introduction of the people of overseas nationals described supra is detrimental to the interests of the United States because, successful my judgment, Harvard’s behaviour has rendered it an unsuitable destination for overseas students and researchers,” Trump wrote successful the order.
It’s a further escalation successful the White House’s combat with the nation’s oldest and wealthiest university. A national tribunal successful Boston blocked the Department of Homeland Security from barring planetary students astatine Harvard past week. Trump’s bid invokes a antithetic ineligible authority.
Trump invoked a wide national instrumentality that gives the president authorization to artifact foreigners whose introduction would beryllium “detrimental to the interests of the United States.” On Wednesday, helium cited the aforesaid authorization erstwhile announcing that citizens of 12 countries would beryllium banned from visiting the U.S. and those from 7 others would look restrictions. Trump’s Harvard bid cites respective different laws, too, including 1 barring foreigners associated with violent organizations.
In a connection Wednesday night, Harvard said it volition “continue to support its planetary students.”
“This is yet different amerciable retaliatory measurement taken by the Administration successful usurpation of Harvard’s First Amendment rights,” assemblage officials said.
It stems from Harvard’s refusal to taxable to a bid of demands made by the national government. It has escalated precocious aft the Department of Homeland Security said Harvard refused to supply records related to misconduct by overseas students.
Harvard says it has complied with the request, but the authorities said the school's effect was insufficient.
The quality has been gathering for months aft the Trump medication demanded a bid of argumentation and governance changes astatine Harvard, calling it a hotbed of liberalism and accusing it of tolerating anti-Jewish harassment. Harvard defied the demands, saying they encroached connected the university’s autonomy and represented a menace to the state of each U.S. universities.
Trump officials person repeatedly raised the stakes and sought caller fronts to unit Harvard, cutting much than $2.6 cardinal successful probe grants and moving to extremity each national contracts with the university. The latest menace has targeted Harvard’s astir 7,000 planetary students, who relationship for fractional the enrollment astatine immoderate Harvard postgraduate schools.
“Admission to the United States to survey astatine an ‘elite’ American assemblage is simply a privilege, not a right,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said successful a station connected X. “This Department of Justice volition vigorously support the President’s proclamation suspending the introduction of caller overseas students astatine Harvard University based connected nationalist information concerns.”
Rep. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., called the measurement ridiculous and said it has thing to bash with nationalist security.
“It’s a thinly veiled revenge ploy successful Trump’s idiosyncratic feud with Harvard, and continued authoritarian overreach against escaped speech,” Jayapal said connected the societal media tract X.
The bid applies to each students attempting to participate the United States to be Harvard aft the day of the enforcement order. It provides a loophole to let students whose introduction would “benefit the nationalist interest,” arsenic determined by national officials.
Trump’s bid alleges that Harvard provided information connected misconduct by lone 3 students successful effect to the Homeland Security request, and it lacked the item to gauge if national enactment was needed. Trump concluded that Harvard is either “not afloat reporting its disciplinary records for overseas students oregon is not earnestly policing its overseas students.”
“These actions and failures straight undermine the Federal Government’s quality to guarantee that overseas nationals admitted connected pupil oregon speech visitant visas stay successful compliance with Federal law,” the bid said.
For overseas students already astatine Harvard, Secretary of State Marco Rubio volition find if visas should beryllium revoked, Trump wrote.
The bid is scheduled to past six months. Within 90 days, the medication volition find if it should beryllium renewed, the bid said.
A State Department cablegram sent past week to U.S. embassies and consulates said national officials volition begin reviewing the societal media accounts of visa applicants who program to attend, enactment astatine oregon sojourn Harvard University for immoderate signs of antisemitism.
In a tribunal filing past week, Harvard officials said the Trump administration’s efforts to halt Harvard from enrolling planetary students person created an situation of “profound fear, concern, and confusion.” Countless planetary students person asked astir transferring from the university, Harvard migration services manager Maureen Martin said successful the filing. ___
Associated Press writer Cheyanne Mumphrey successful Phoenix contributed to this report.
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