Trump Wants Harvard To Hand Over Info on Over 10,000 International Students
The university says it will continue to defend itself against government overreach.

The Trump administration is ramping up its attack on Harvard University. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced Wednesday that it would subpoena the university for information regarding its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), a program that certifies schools to enroll international students.
Since April, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem has made sweeping demands that Harvard provide information on its over 10,000 foreign students in the name of combating antisemitism on the school's campus. In May, Noem attempted to terminate the university's SEVP—and put substantially more of the school's revenue at risk—for "insufficient[ly]" complying with her demands, despite Harvard's claims that it turned over the information requested by the DHS. But the move was quickly blocked by a U.S. district court judge, allowing international students to continue enrollment until litigation over the issue has been resolved.
"We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way," said DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin in response to the school's repeated refusal to comply with "past non-coercive requests to hand over the required information" voluntarily. "Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa privileges and advocate for violence and terrorism on campus," she continued. "If Harvard won't defend the interests of its students, then we will."
The university told CBS News in a statement that Harvard is "committed to following the law, and while the government's subpoenas are unwarranted, the university will continue to cooperate with lawful requests and obligations."
Meanwhile, two other federal agencies—the Education Department and the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)—notified the university's accrediting agency of the school's noncompliance with federal law on Wednesday. This follows a June 30 letter from the Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism—a task force created by Trump's executive order to, in part, fight antisemitism on campuses—alerting Harvard's president that the university was found to be in violation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin.
This threat to Harvard's accreditation resembles a similar move by the administration against Columbia University in June, in which Education Secretary Linda McMahon asserted that noncompliance with federal laws makes the school ineligible for accreditation.
"By allowing antisemitic harassment and discrimination to persist unchecked on its campus, Harvard University has failed in its obligation to students, educators, and American taxpayers," McMahon said in a statement on Wednesday. "When an institution—no matter how prestigious—abandons its mission and fails to protect its students, it forfeits the legitimacy that accreditation is designed to uphold," added HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Ultimately, the accreditation organization (in Harvard's case, the New England Commission of Higher Education) has the final say on whether a university's accreditation will be revoked. But the threat of losing accreditation is significant given its potential to massively disrupt an institution's ability to operate. Consequences include students' academic credits becoming ineligible for transfer, disqualifying degrees from meeting many graduate schools' admission criteria, and losing eligibility for federal student loans and Pell Grants.
"The administration's ongoing retaliatory actions come as Harvard continues to defend itself and its students, faculty, and staff against harmful government overreach aimed at dictating whom private universities can admit and hire, and what they can teach," Harvard told CBS News in a statement. "Harvard remains unwavering in its efforts to protect its community and its core principles against unfounded retribution by the federal government."
Although the administration's aggressive actions could put a deal with Harvard at risk, Trump is confident they won't. When asked by reporters shortly after the DHS announcement whether he was optimistic about still reaching a deal with the university, Trump replied, "Oh yeah, I think so. Harvard's been very bad, totally antisemitic….They'll absolutely reach a deal."
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probably the American in me but it's kinda fun watching The Thing Who Thought Itself Invincible not be so invincible
Yeah - fun. If the US government is big enough to squash Harvard, what do you think they will do to you whenever they want. Good times.
I've been squashed before but it was by Clinton and Obama. And I didn't have an endowment.
I'm endowed and still got crushed by them
Harvard's endowment is larger than the GDP of over 100 countries. They'll survive just fine.
Define squash.
You mean being upheld to the standards required for issuing Visas?
First they came for the communist America-hating racist assholes, but I didn’t do anything because those motherfuckers want me dead.
In the end, there was no one left to come for me because all of the communist, America-hating, racist assholes were already crushed. Chilling.
It is fun watching anyone including a supposed Ivy League school somehow argue that the US Government has no right to know everything about who is entering the country.
Visas are a federal grant, not a university grant.
Surely you aren't advocating for disparate treatment based on college students and other immigrants. That wouldn't be libertarian.
How can this be true if Trump is anti-Semitic, as we have been told?
Trump is anti-Semitic. His supposed concern regarding antisemitism at colleges is a pretext to go after colleges he does not like.
No he's not. Not anymore than any 80s businessman who had to deal with shylocks and shysters while trying to get a leg up with his meager inheritance. Poor guy.
Poor sarc doesn't know what shylock means or is derived from. It does not refer to a Jewish person. Just because the lawyer first described as a shylock in a play was Jewish, doesn't mean all jews are shylocks. Poor sarcasmisek.
Shylock
[shahy-lok]
Phonetic (Standard)
IPA
noun
a relentless and revengeful moneylender in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice.
a hard-hearted moneylender.
*Has a Jewish daughter and Jewish grandchildren
*First sitting president to ever pray a Jewish prayer at the Kotel
*President of Israel nominates him for a Nobel Peace Prize
Tony: "trUmP iS aNTi-sEmiTic"
You're so retarded that other retards must just shake their heads and look on you with pity.
Moved embassy to Jerusalem.
The only anti-semites are on your side, doc.
There ain't nothing that Trump defenders love more than their Dear Leader engaging in lawfare against people they hate.
Yeah, I'm pretty stoked about this, but withdrawing government funding because Harvard's been violating grant conditions isn't lawfare, you tremendous retard.
You didn't even read the article, did you?
Didn't you support every corrupt prosecution against Republicans the last 9 years?
Yet asking colleges to follow visa regulations is what's wrong?
The most interesting part of sarc not caring about Dems weaponizing government against Reps is that now he objects to holding them accountable for doing so. Only when an investigation is appropriate does sarc object. I'm sure it's entirely coincidental his position in both cases exactly matches unprincipled Dems.
“weaponizing government against Reps is that now he objects to holding them accountable for doing so. Only when an investigation is appropriate does sarc object.”
What the Dems have done is really insidious when you think about it. Basically any investigation into their malfeasance and corruption can look like sour grapes of their victims, and with the media on their side guess which narrative gets more play.
Foreign students aside, all of these elite institutions have a long and unbroken record of racial discrimination in violation of the law and constitution. They exist not because they offer value in the marketplace but because taxpayers have subsidized their elitist grift. They are a part of the establishment that Reason claims should be abolished. I'm onboard with anything that brings them to their knees.
Do you mean Ivy League? College in general? Trade school? Apprenticeship? Degrees? Certifications? Licenses?
Poor sarc doesn't know what the adjective elite refers to.
Racial discrimination by a private university does not go against the Constitution.
If they get federal money by any means it is illegal. And racial discrimination in any public accommodation has been found to violate the Constitution. I'm happy to accept that it has been wrongly decided but any entity funded by the federal government is private in name only. There are multiple private universities that do not take government money specifically because they do not want to be bound by those laws. Harvard is not among them.
In libertopia, you’d be right. But we don’t live in libertopia and public accommodations don’t get to discriminate. Doubly so if they suck at the test of the fed.gov.
MAGA is sounding more and more like the Cultural Revolution.
Next up, sending Harvard professors out to the corn fields.
Found one.
{Again)
I looked into getting a retard finder on Prime but the tariff blood bath put the price out of reach.
Jeff doesn't count. That's shooting fish in a barrel.
But the barrel is so fucking big it is difficult to shoot a fish in it.
Just wait until he "wins" (they cheated first now it's our turn) his third term. That will get interesting.
Think about it. There's nothing Trump has done that hasn't been defended with "They did it first!"
Eight years of telling his followers that whatever Trump does is ok because they did it first.
Why not steal an election? They did first. That makes it ok.
Does it make it okay? You guys went full Nazi over the last four years, so there's a lot of wiggle room before your allegations will work.
Leave him alone. The stupid fag has no morality.
Another conspiracy bookmark from Rachel Maddow. Sigh.
Next up, sending Harvard professors out to the corn fields.
Is that an option? Can we please do that?
Look, stamp your feet like a toddler all you want about it. Trump's not screwing around, and if Harvard is the one he uses to make an example of for the others, then so be it. It's like a grizzly killing an alpha wolf. The other wolves will quickly be in disarray, lose their concept of social hierarchy, flee in self-preservation, and avoid future confrontations. Maybe they restructure their pack down the line, but more often the pack is killed/chased off.
Which suits America just fine for their so-called "institutes of higher learning."
Im sure he'd be up in arms if Ole Miss was allowing black students to be harassed on blocked campus, and crosses were burned on school property
Are they here on Visa's? Are they preaching hatred and engaging in unlawful activities like storming buildings and inciting violence against Jews? Are they tied to terrorists and lied on their visa's to get here? No? Then good to go
"Trump Wants Harvard To Hand Over Info on Over 10,000 International Students."
I want Harvard, who gets $1 billion from its alumni annualy to hand over our tax dollars it gets on a regular basis.
Bailed out on the first sentence...
The university says it will continue to defend itself against government overreach.
Compare this to how universities accepted the illegally issued DOE Dear Colleague letter which claimed not discriminating by gender required creating a campus sex police completely devoid of due process. Interestingly all the people currently lecturing the right about the importance of due process had nothing to ay then. You see those were Americans being deprived of due process, not terrorism supporting foreigners and gang criminals. So their due process rights weren't important enough to say anything.
Not even private companies get away with knowingly hiring illegals.
Does Harvard think they're above that or what?
Yes.
Article 8 of the Constitution puts Harvard's admissions office in charge of immigration
I knew that was in there somewhere. Thanks for pointing it out!
It would seem to me that the Federal Government is in charge of issuing student visa's and revoking them if the recipients engage in certain behaviors that violate the terms. If Harvard is hiding those violations to keep the foreign money train rolling then they should be sanctioned.
Many people misunderstand the logic of focusing on Harvard. I don’t think this is random or petty. It has important societal consequences:
1. Harvard had been a bastion of insiders educating and placing the next generation of insiders in the economy and government. But if you have, instead, become a center of woke ideology then this source of talent has been completely corrupted and can’t be trusted anymore to run companies or government. Inasmuch, the head of the snake must be chopped off.
2. Harvard is the textbook example of an asset management company masquerading as a non profit educational institution. This arbitrage is bad for the US and needs to change - otherwise the incentives and behaviors of administrators will never improve. Administrators should not be running the top schools in America. Great professors and brilliant students should. These places should be free-wheeling centers of battling ideas and curiosity. Not DEI based groupthink.
3. Harvard has consistently had so many back and side doors into their school while blatantly locking the front door to pure merit. This has been well documented and went to the Supreme Court who concurred. This is a horrible way for American society to model itself.
4. Harvard has a level of low-key antisemitism that has been called out by many including former alums. It seems to try and superficially address it to say “Nothing to see here” which has appeased no one.
At the most basic level, they didn't get into the country without paperwork and they certainly didn't get into Harvard without it. Trump is beyond criticism here. Now it might not be a good idea for other reasons but he is saying an obvious thing
"The university says it will continue to defend itself against government overreach."
Claiming facts not in evidence.