Trump administration terminates Harvard's student visa program

The Department of Homeland Safety DHS is eliminating the novice visa plan at Harvard University due to pro-terrorist conduct at campus protests Fox News Digital has learned It's a severe consequence for what DHS suggests is Harvard's refusal to comply with its requests for behavioral records of scholar visa holders Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students in the - school year and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status to reside in the U S before the next academic year begins As a product of your brazen refusal to comply with multiple requests to provide the Department of Homeland Shield pertinent information while perpetuating an unsafe campus atmosphere that is hostile to Jewish students promotes pro-Hamas rhetoric and employs racist diversity equity and inclusion policies you have lost this privilege Secretary Kristi Noem wrote in a letter to Maureen Martin the university s director of immigration services RUBIO FIRES BACK AFTER DEM SENATOR SAYS HE REGRETS VOTING FOR HIM OVER VISA REVOCATIONSNoem offered Harvard hours to provide the information requested for an opportunity to regain its visa undertaking for the next school year She called the move the direct effect of Harvard s epic failure to comply with simple reporting requirements The records requested include any footage of protest activity involving students on visas and the disciplinary records of all students on visas in the last five years Noem revealed last month she had requested records related to visa-holding students enrolled in the university and Harvard s counsel did not provide adequate information to meet the demand After the DHS general counsel demanded again for the information Harvard provided an insufficient incomplete and unacceptable response she reported Consequences must follow to send a clear signal to Harvard and all universities that want to enjoy the privilege of enrolling foreign students that the Trump administration will enforce the law and root out the evils of antisemitism in society and campuses Requested records also include footage or documentation of illegal dangerous or violent activity by trainee visa holders any records of threats or the deprivation of rights of other students or university personnel Harvard could not instantly be reached for comment Last month Harvard revealed it would allow foreign students to accept admission to both Harvard and a foreign university as backup amid the Trump administration s threats to move to block Harvard s authorization to host them Typically students must accept enrollment at Harvard by May and can t commit to another university TRUMP ADMINISTRATION BEGINS NEW WAVE OF INTERNATIONAL CANDIDATE VISA REVOCATIONS NO ONE HAS A RIGHT TO A VISA'At least a dozen Harvard students have had their authorization to analysis in the U S revoked over campus protest activity The Trump administration has already frozen close to billion in federal funding to the university largely dedicated to research and launched investigations across the departments of Justice Schooling and Vitality and Human Services They claim Harvard has failed to address campus antisemitism and eradicate Diversity Equity and Inclusion DEI in its policies Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported Congress this week the State Department had possibly revoked thousands of trainee visas by this point and would proudly revoke more We're going to continue to revoke the visas of people who are here as guests and are disrupting our higher mentoring facilities he disclosed Tuesday A visa is a privilege not a right The crackdown on university policies comes after a wave of pro-Gaza pupil protests and encampments swept schools across the nation since the beginning of Israel s offensive campaign to eradicate Hamas after the October attacks to pressure university administrations to divest from Israel