Washington – The Trump administration said on Wednesday that he would send administrative sub -ponios to Harvard University for information about its foreign students, the latest growth in his ongoing fight with IV League School.
Homeland security department Said Information demand is related to the certification of Harvard under the student visitor and exchange program, through which the university can enroll international students.
The administration first demanded Harvard on a detailed record on alleged “illegal and violent” activities of its foreign student visa holders in April. The school said in the court filing that it changed the information, but the Homeland Security Department said it was “insufficient” and Complete school capacity to enroll International Students.
Harvard has since sued the Trump administration, and a federal judge in Boston. Stopped from cancellation School ability to enroll foreign students last month.
In announcing the subponus, Homeland Security Secretary Christie NoM accused Harvard and other anonymous universities of “abusing foreign students to misuse their visa privileges and allowing violence and terrorism in the campus.”
“If Harvard will not protect the interests of his students, we will,” he Xe“We tried to do things easy with Harvard. Now, through refusing to cooperate, we have to do things in a hard way.”
The department also warned other universities, who have received equal requests for information that they should focus on “Harvard’s actions, and while following the results” it should decide what to do.
In response to the administration’s demands, Harvard said in a statement that it is “committed to following the law, and while the sub -groups of the government are inappropriate, the university will continue to cooperate with valid requests and obligations.”
The university said, “As the ongoing vengeance of the administration, Harvard continues to defend himself and his students, faculty, and employees against the harmful government, aimed at determining to determine that private universities can accept and hire, and what they can teach,” the university said. “The Harvard is unwavering in efforts to protect its community and its main principles against the baseless vengeance by the federal government.”
Separate, Education and Health and Human Services Departments threatened Harvard’s recognition. The two agencies said on Wednesday that they informed the New England Commission of Higher Education that Harvard violated the federal antidericulation laws and hence could fail to meet its recognition standards. The Trump administration said at the end of last month that Harvard violated the title VI Civil rights work through the treatment of Jews and Israeli students
Education Secretary Linda McMahon said in a statement, “Harvard University has failed for students, teachers and American taxpayers, allowing antisementary harassment and discrimination to remain uncontrolled in his premises.” “The Department of Education has expected the New England Commission of Higher Education to implement its policies and practices, and to fully inform the department to ensure its efforts to ensure that Harvard is in compliance with federal law and recognized standards.”
Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Junior pledged continuous inspection of Harvard.
“When an institution – no matter how prestigious it is – leaves his mission and fails to protect its students, it seize validity that is designed to maintain recognition,” he said in a statement.
Since President Trump returned to the White House in January, his administration has continuously tried to punish the school, which is in a big way that it was a failure to condemn the antisementism and protect the Jewish students on the campus. Federal agencies Get billions of dollars In grants and contracts, and its international-student population targeted. Mr. Trump is also Threatened to cancel Harvard’s tax-free status, and the university is investigating by several agencies.
Is also harvard Filed a case Against the Trump administration on its efforts to snatch it out of the federal dollar. The hearing in that case has been scheduled for July 21.
