Trump suspends foreign student visas at Harvard University amid national security concerns

President Donald Trump connected Wednesday signed a proclamation to pupil visas for foreigners seeking to survey oregon enactment successful speech programs astatine Harvard University, the determination successful the ongoing feud betwixt the White House and the Ivy League school. 

The proclamation directs the State Department to "consider revoking" existing world oregon speech visas of immoderate existent Harvard students who conscionable definite criteria. 

"Admission into the United States to attend, behaviour research, oregon thatch astatine our Nation’s institutions of higher acquisition is simply a privilege granted by our Government, not a guarantee," Trump said. "That privilege is needfully tied to the big institution’s compliance and committedness to pursuing Federal law.  Harvard University has failed successful this respect, among galore others."

The proclamation doesn't use to overseas nationals attending different universities' Student Exchange Visa Program (SEVP) and exempts others whose introduction is deemed successful the nationalist interest.

STATE DEPARTMENT NOW SCRUTINIZING ALL VISA HOLDERS ASSOCIATED WITH HARVARD

President Donald Trump issued a proclamation Wednesday to suspend pupil visas astatine Harvard University. (Getty Images)

Last month, the State Department said that it would statesman scrutinizing each visa holders associated with Harvard University, not conscionable pupil visa holders. The probe is aimed astatine identifying imaginable information vulnerabilities oregon different abuses of the visa system.

Wednesday's proclamation cited Harvard's past "concerning overseas ties and radicalism."

Harvard is suing the Trump medication implicit its attempts to reign successful the university.  (Fox News)

"Harvard has failed to supply capable accusation to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) astir overseas students’ known amerciable oregon unsafe activities, reporting deficient information connected lone 3 students," it said. 

It said Harvard has besides developed "extensive entanglements with overseas adversaries," portion receiving much than $150 cardinal from China alone. 

In exchange, Harvard has "hosted Chinese Communist Party paramilitary members and partnered with China-based individuals connected probe that could beforehand China’s subject modernization."

TRUMP SAYS HARVARD'S FOREIGN STUDENTS ARE FROM COUNTRIES PAYING 'NOTHING' FOR THEIR EDUCATION

Pro-Palestinian protests astatine Harvard University.  (Getty Images )

The Trump medication has accused Harvard of failing to stamp retired antisemitism connected campus, among different issues.  

The proclamation said Harvard has seen a "drastic emergence successful transgression successful caller years portion failing to subject astatine slightest immoderate categories of behaviour violations connected campus."

Harvard officials person said the Trump administration is retaliating against the assemblage with moves to frost taxpayer-funded probe grants, an effort to revoke its quality to enroll planetary students, to extremity it's tax-exempt presumption and to unfastened an probe into whether it discriminated against white, Asian, antheral oregon consecutive employees oregon occupation applicants.

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