The US government has threatened to ban Harvard University from enrolling foreign students – after the institution said it would not bow to demands from President Donald Trump’s administration and was hit with a funding freeze.
The White House has demanded the oldest university in the US make changes to hiring, admissions and teaching practices – to help fight antisemitism on campus.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has asked for records on what she called the “illegal and violent” activities of its foreign student visa-holders.
Trump exposed Harvard. It's not an institution of higher learning but a manufacturer of elite status, reserved for those who have been taught to hate America and to hate the working class. I don't want Harvard to reform. I want us to stop worshipping institutions that hate us. pic.twitter.com/WG20Ftp0tB
— Batya Ungar-Sargon (@bungarsargon) April 16, 2025
