Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Revokes Harvard’s Ability to Enroll Foreign Students
Massive purge of terrorists and spies: 90% of the Revoked Visas of 4,000 Foreign Students have Serious Criminal Records in the First 100 Days of President Trump’s second term.
May 24, 2025
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll all foreign students on Thursday, telling all current foreign students they must transfer schools in order to keep their visas.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem sent a letter to Harvard informing the university that its certification for the Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) had been terminated.
Noem further told the school that it can no longer enroll foreign students and that all existing foreign students must transfer schools or lose their legal status.
“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” Noem said in a press release.
“It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
Harvard has been a consistent target of the Trump administration because of its “toxic campus climate,” including “permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals,” and “inaccurate” reporting of foreign funding, including from China.
“Harvard’s leadership further facilitated, and engaged in coordinated activity with the CCP, including hosting and training members of a CCP paramilitary group complicit in the Uyghur genocide,” DHS’s press release notes.
More than 27 percent (6,793 students) of Harvard’s student body was made up of foreign students in the 2024-2025 school year, according to the school.
Harvard said it would attempt to find a legal route to stop the revocation.
“The government’s action is unlawful,” Harvard said in a statement.
“We are fully committed to maintaining Harvard’s ability to host our international students and scholars, who hail from more than 140 countries and enrich the University — and this nation — immeasurably. We are working quickly to provide guidance and support to members of our community. This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission.”
DHS pointed to multiple instances of bad leadership and policy at Harvard, notably the 55 percent increase in crime from 2022 to 2023 (including a 295 percent increase in aggravated assaults and a 560 percent increase in robbery), as well as the school’s fealty to Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) ideology that may violate civil rights law.
As The Federalist reported, Harvard has already endeavored to rebrand its DEI offices, likely to avoid public scrutiny and maintain the ideology’s operation in secret.
Harvard’s rebranding came the same day that the Department of Education announced yet another inquiry into the discriminatory activities of the school.
Outside of DHS, the Trump administration has gone after Harvard’s grant funding, with Education Secretary Linda McMahon telling the school to stop seeking grant funding, as “none will be provided.”
McMahon slammed its DEI practices in a scathing letter that also detailed the total diminishment of a once-prestigious institution:
Whatever Harvard’s legal actions look like, there is a deep bench of far-left, wannabe dictator district judges who seem eager to stop the Trump administration from doing its job.
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Trump Administration Has Revoked the Visas of 4,000 Foreign Students – 90% of whom have serious criminal records in the First 100 Days of President Trump’s second term
Over 400 International Students at Harvard, Stanford, UC, and More Affected. More than 500 of the foreign students whose visas were revoked reportedly had assault records.
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I don´t think legally is about Free Speech and Academic Freedom. I read the Lawsuit and I came out with a different impression. Harvard is misstating and misinterpreting the Administration and what happened, as inferred from the Exhibits, the Lawsuit and the request of a restraining order. It seems Harvard assumed too much and erroneously so, and its legal counsel might have too. And they did not appealed in time and manner what they complain about now, and that might not or should not fly in Court. I have a Post of my analysis and comments of those documents, but, I am not a lawyer. And the allegations of "misconduct" by Harvard, if I am sufficiently correct on my impressions from the Lawsuit are irrelevant to Harvard´s case, now, by the actions of Harvard itself:
https://federicosotodelalba.substack.com/p/on-harvard-versus-united-states?r=4up0lp