Trump moves to deny visas to Harvard's international students

President Donald Trump said Wednesday that helium volition contradict visas for overseas students trying to travel to the United States to be Harvard University, his latest onslaught connected the salient Ivy League college.

The medication tried precocious past period to revoke Harvard’s quality to enroll overseas students — a determination that was swiftly blocked by a national judge.

In a proclamation Wednesday, Trump said Harvard failed to contiguous capable accusation astir its overseas students to the national government.

“Harvard provided information connected misconduct by lone 3 students, and the information it provided was truthful deficient that the DHS could not measure whether it should instrumentality further actions,” Trump said, referring to the Department of Homeland Security.

Harvard did not instantly respond to requests for remark Wednesday night.

Trump made his pledge arsenic helium announced what amounts to a question prohibition for 12 countries and limitations connected 9 others.

The proclamation said the president would “restrict the introduction of overseas nationals who question to participate the United States solely oregon principally to enactment successful a people of survey astatine Harvard University oregon successful an speech visitant programme hosted by Harvard University.”

It added that the State Department would reappraisal existing overseas students nether F, M oregon J visas to spot whether their visas should beryllium revoked.

Trump and his medication person attacked Harvard, saying it has not done capable to combat antisemitism connected field during demonstrations against the Israel-Hamas war.

Harvard successful April rejected Trump medication demands that included auditing viewpoints of the pupil body. In response, the national authorities said it was freezing much than $2 cardinal successful national grants.

The medication antecedently sought to bounds Harvard's quality to enroll overseas students by revoking its certification successful the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, Harvard said. The authorities besides sought to prohibit Harvard from issuing F and J visas.

Harvard President Alan M. Garber responded successful a missive connected May 23 that Harvard was being retaliated against for refusing to surrender to the Trump administration's amerciable attempts to power it and its students.

"We condemn this unlawful and unwarranted action," Farber said. "It imperils the futures of thousands of students and scholars crossed Harvard and serves arsenic a informing to countless others astatine colleges and universities passim the state who person travel to America to prosecute their acquisition and fulfill their dreams."