Harvard is banned from enrolling overseas students

Donald Trump’s administration is blocking Harvard University from enrolling international students and is forcing enrolled foreign students to leave the university or risk losing their legal status in the country.

- ALEX WOODWARD IN NEW YORK

The announcement yesterday accelerates the administration’s pressure campaign against the nation’s oldest school in an escalating effort to bend institutions to the president’s ideologically driven demands.

The Trump administration previously warned that the university’s federal funding was at risk if it did not comply with the president’s efforts to eliminate diversity programs, cooperate with immigration enforcement, dissolve pro-Palestine demonstrations and submit to a “viewpoint diversity” audit.

The Department of Homeland Security claims Harvard “has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting antiAmerican, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment”.

Homeland security secretary Kristi Noem accused the university of “fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party”.