Posted on 05/22/2025 1:09:42 PM PDT by dennisw
Trump administration revoked Harvard University's ability to enroll international students in escalating battle with the Ivy League school, saying thousands of current students must transfer to other schools or leave the country.
The Department of Homeland Security announced the action Thursday, saying Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus. It also accused Harvard of coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party, saying hosted and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group as recently as 2024.
“This means Harvard can no longer enroll foreign students and existing foreign students must transfer or lose their legal status,” the agency said
Harvard enrolls almost 6,800 foreign students at its campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, accounting for more than a quarter of its student body. Most are graduate students, coming from more than 100 countries.
Harvard called the action unlawful, said it's working to provide guidance to students.
“This retaliatory action threatens serious harm to the Harvard community and our country, and undermines Harvard’s academic and research mission,” the university said
The dispute stems from an April 16 request from Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. The letter demanded that Harvard turn over information about foreign students that might implicate them in violence or protests that could otherwise lead to their deportation.
In a letter to Harvard on Thursday, Noem said the school's sanction is “the unfortunate result of Harvard's failure to comply with simple reporting requirements.” It bars Harvard from hosting international students for the upcoming 2025-26 school year.
Noem said Harvard can regain its ability to host foreign students if it produces a trove of records on foreign students within 72 hours. Her updated request demands all records, including audio or video footage, of foreign students participating in protests or dangerous activity on campus.
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Hard to believe Harvard started out as a Christian institution. Evil attacked and destroyed it from within.
Jews have won 129 Nobel prizes over the years, mostly in the sciences and medicine. Harvard's racist treatment of Jewish students and professors should be noted. They have been prohibited from getting to their classes and offices, and have been threatened or physically assaulted on campus by anti-Jewish thugs.
Harvard's inaction in these situations is a clear and present danger to the scholarly and research profile of the country. If that University cannot fix itself, it would be best if scholarly and research projects were moved from Harvard to more humanely guided institutions.
One of the all-time famous quotes.
I thought it was kinda funny, actually. Think of something you’d never find a non-White person at, or even a foreign European, but would still be dominated by insufferably Lefties. Would you have preferred the Wisconsin Mayonnaise Days?
“Aardsma, Aaron, Abbott, Abel, Abrams, Abramowitz” How are they still all Jewish?
Now that I think of it, how is Abbott a Jewish name? (I’ve heard of two Abbotts and they were both Jewish.) (No, two out of three.... One-handed baseball legend Jim Abbott probably wasn’t Jewish.)
Maybe Abbot is close enough to the Hebrew ‘abba’ to be acceptable to the authorities on Ellis Island. There is the classic example where the legal immigrant was asked his name, and he was so nervous that he said “ich fergesen” or “I forgot”.
He was given the name Ike Fergeson as an approximation.
Well its like this- a lot of people here in Vt are progs
BUT thrres lots & lots of Conservatives, its just we keep our inions to ourselves
I hate to break it to ya, but you have fewer conservatives than anywhere in North America. Fewer than Massachusetts, fewer than Quebec, fewer than San Francisco.
Well, in the case I could look up, Abbott from Abbott and Costello, it turns out that he was Jewish on his Mom’s side. But your speculation is fairly correct. On investigating, “Abbot,” meaning “priest” (which is why it seemed an odd name for a Jew), actually does come from the Hebrew word for “father,” “abba,” meaning the other Jewish Abbott I knew may indeed have been related to a Hebrew word after all. Still would be surprised if Jim Abbott were Jewish.
well, that brings up an interesting point. Will any Jewish Israeli students @ Harvard get the boot?
You do not live in Vermont, you do not know my city, town nor neighborhood do you know what I really cant stand are people like you who find a statistic and claim its God Almighty himself.
Hit th bricks pal, & 🖕 off
All Israeli students, Jewish or otherwise, would be advised to depart Harvard on the grounds that the level of retaliation by racist professors and administrators for the attempts to have the institution follow the law on non-discrimination will be dangerous for their careers.
You didn’t say your city or your neighborhood. I was referring to Vermont. You seem very easily triggered for a conservative.
Best. Post. Ever. But, you now owe me a new keyboard because my coffee... it snorted out my nose.
....keep it up , ok? just keep it up
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Man, I guess you can’t have all those ski resorts without a whole lot of snowflakes! (You told me to!)
🖕 Leave me alone
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