Trump Admin Finds New Way To Target Harvard’s Foreign Students

The State Department announced on Wednesday that it had opened an investigation into use by the visa program for students abroad by Harvard University.

The agency examines whether the institution of Ivy League has violated any regulation of the visitors’ exchange program and wonders if the university remains a sponsor eligible for foreign students, according to a press release. The previous efforts of the Trump administration to target Harvard foreign students were all blocked by a federal court. (Related: Harvard’s battle with Trump administrator can break it)

“All sponsors participating in this program are required to fully comply with the regulations of visitors to exchange, transparency in reports and a demonstrated commitment to promote the principles of cultural exchange and mutual understanding on which the program was founded,” the State Ministry said in a brief press release. “To maintain their privilege of sponsoring visitors to the exchange, sponsors must comply with all regulations, in particular the achievement of their programs in a manner that does not undermine the objectives of foreign policy or does not compromise national security interests in the United States.”

“This investigation is yet another measure of reprisals crossed by the administration in violation of the rights of the first Harvard amendment,” a university spokesman for the Daily Caller News Foundation told. “Harvard continues to register and sponsor academics, researchers and international students, and will protect his international community and support them when they ask for American visas and go to campus this fall. The university has undertaken to continue to comply with the regulations of the exchange program for exchange visitors. ”

A person disguised in Donald Trump interacts with a group of demonstrators outside the courthouse of John Joseph Moakley in the United States on July 21, 2025 in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo of Scott Eisen / Getty Images)

The two previous efforts of the Trump administration to dismiss the Harvard foreign students fell flat. In May, the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) told school that its “toxic campus climate” made the certification inadmissible to its certification of students and exchange visitors (SEVP) and added that the school was not authorized to register new foreign students and that all current international students would have to transfer elsewhere. Harvard continued shortly after and obtained a recovery a few hours later against the actions of the administration.

President Donald Trump signed a decree in June to prevent foreign students from entering university, before being blocked by the same judge as an extension of the initial order. It was extended from a temporary ban prescription to a preliminary injunction later in June. (Related: the Chinese University supported by the Communist Party Party to poaching Harvard foreign students)

The administration has been put to drop Harvard since he promised not to comply with the requests of the administration to fight against anti -Semitism on the campus. The University insisted that it would manage the question by itself and declared that it would not abandon academic freedom and the rights of freedom of expression to the federal government.

In addition to targeting its foreign students, the Trump administration has also revoked more than $ 2 billion in university federal subsidies, which currently justifies the court after Harvard again continued the administration. Harvard’s accreditation also remains in limbo.

The anti-Israeli demonstrations in Harvard consisted of disturbing the classes, occupying a building of the campus and setting up a camp of several days. A survey of the September Congress revealed that “Harvard failed” to punish the majority of people involved in the demonstrations, and a more recent survey carried out by the University itself revealed that more than a quarter of Jewish students felt “physically dangerous” on the campus and “almost 60% of Jewish students said they had suffered a discrimination, stereotypes or negative bias’.

“The American people have the right to expect their universities to support national security, comply with the law and provide safe environments to all students,” continued the Department of the Ministry. “The survey will ensure that State Department programs do not work contrary to the interests of our country.”

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