President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on June 4 to suspend international visas for new students at Harvard University as his administration and the Ivy League college battle in court over frozen federal funding.
Trump’s proclamation, “Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at Harvard University,” stops any new Harvard students from entering the United States as nonimmigrants under student (F), vocational (M), and exchange visitor (J) visas. It directs “the Secretary of State to consider revoking existing F, M, or J visas for current Harvard students who meet the Proclamation’s criteria.”
The proclamation accuses Harvard of failing to “discipline at least some categories of conduct violations on campus.” It also states that U.S. adversaries, such as the Chinese Communist Party, are trying to “take advantage of American higher education by exploiting the student visa program for improper purposes and by using visiting students to collect information at elite universities in the United States.”…
Trump Suspends Visas for New Harvard International Students
