{"id":1233,"date":"2025-04-17T16:12:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T16:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/?p=1233"},"modified":"2025-04-21T14:33:05","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T14:33:05","slug":"noem-threatens-harvard-with-ban-on-foreign-student-visas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/17\/noem-threatens-harvard-with-ban-on-foreign-student-visas\/","title":{"rendered":"Noem threatens Harvard with ban on foreign student visas"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem threatened Wednesday to ban Harvard University from taking in foreign students amid a growing battle over the Ivy League school not accepting the demands of the Trump administration to change its policies. <\/p>\n

According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement, Noem sent a \u201cscathing letter\u201d to Harvard demanding the university hand over records of foreign students who have been involved in illegal or violent activities.<\/p>\n

If the school does not give the information by April 30, the administration said it will take away its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification. <\/p>\n

Along with the demand for foreign student information, the DHS said it will<\/a> cancel two grants worth $2.7 million, alleging the Ivy League school is \u201cunfit to be entrusted with taxpayer dollars.\u201d <\/p>\n

One of the grants funded a \u201cshockingly skewed study\u201d that \u201cbranded conservatives as far-right dissidents\u201d and the other \u201cfunded Harvard\u2019s public health propaganda,\u201d according to a department press release.  <\/p>\n

\u201cHarvard bending the knee to antisemitism \u2014 driven by its spineless leadership \u2014 fuels a cesspool of extremist riots and threatens our national security,\u201d Noem said. \u201cWith anti-American, pro-Hamas ideology poisoning its campus and classrooms, Harvard\u2019s position as a top institution of higher learning is a distant memory. America demands more from universities entrusted with taxpayer dollars.\u201d <\/p>\n

Harvard is in the administration’s crosshairs after openly rejecting multiple academic and disciplinary demands from it. Billions in federal grants to the Massachusetts school have been frozen, and the IRS is examining its tax-exempt status.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of student visas have been revoked across the country, with the administration particularly targeting those who have participated in pro-Palestinian protests.<\/p>\n

The administration has argued Secretary of State Marco Rubio can use a provision of immigration law that allows him to order the deportation of a noncitizen who could have adverse effects on U.S. foreign policy.  <\/p>\n

In last week’s deportation proceedings regarding former Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, an immigration judge ruled the case could move forward based on that argument from the administration. <\/p>\n

\u201cHarvard is aware of the Department of Homeland Security\u2019s letter regarding grant cancellations and scrutiny of foreign student visas, which \u2014 like the Administration\u2019s announcement of the freeze of $2.2 billion in grants and $60 million in contracts, and reports of the revocation of Harvard\u2019s 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status \u2014 follows on the heels of our statement that Harvard will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights,\u201d a spokesperson for Harvard said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe continue to stand by that statement. We will continue to comply with the law and expect the Administration to do the same,\u201d the spokesperson added.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem threatened Wednesday to ban Harvard University from taking in foreign students amid a growing battle over the Ivy League school not accepting the demands of the Trump administration to change its policies.  According to a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announcement, Noem sent a \u201cscathing letter\u201d to Harvard demanding the university hand […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/entouragecover.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}