US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem announced on Thursday that the Trump administration had cancelled Harvard University’s visa program over the school’s failure to provide her department with information about alleged antisemitism on campus.
“It is a privilege to enrol foreign students and it is also a privilege to employ aliens on campus,” Noem wrote to Harvard’s director of immigration services, Maureen Martin.
She claimed that the college had “lost this privilege” as it had allegedly “failed to provide pertinent information” and created “an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies and employs racist ‘diversity, equity, and inclusion’ policies”.
Following the revocation, Harvard is prohibited from issuing new student visas, and its current students must transfer to another university to maintain their legal status in the United States.
