DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News that the department subpoenaed Harvard University over alleged behavior by foreign students on its campus.
DHS received information about alleged “criminality and misconduct” by these students.
The agency criticized the Ivy League school’s “refusal to cooperate” with past information requests regarding Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP), which provides visas for non-citizens to study in the U.S. “We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard,” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. “Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way. Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to abuse their visa privileges and advocate for violence and terrorism on campus.””If Harvard won’t defend the interests of its students, then we will.”
DHS revoked Harvard’s SEVP certification due to links with the Chinese Communist Party.
“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” Secretary Kristi Noem wrote at the time. “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.”
The administration also found that Harvard violated the civil rights of its Jewish and Israeli students.
Jewish and Israeli students lived in fear when antisemites and pro-Hamas students/activists took over the campus. Many had to conceal their identity. Some were attacked and harassed.
You have free speech. You have a right to free assembly. You do not have a right to advocate for violence, attack/harass people, and call for the liquidation of people.
Harvard ignored all of that.
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