- Human rights defenders raise freedom of expression.
- Harvard rejects the demands of the Trump administration this week.
- The US government froze more than $ 2 billion in Harvard funds.
The United States National Security Department said that Harvard University will lose its ability to register foreign students if it does not meet the Trump administration demands to share information about some visas holders, marking the last climbing of the government against the educational institution.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, also announced on Wednesday the termination of two DHS subsidies for a total of more than $ 2.7 million to Harvard.
Noem said he wrote a letter to Harvard demanding records about what he called the “illegal and violent activities” of Harvard foreign student visas before April 30.
“And if Harvard can’t verify that he fulfills full.
A Harvard spokesman said that the university was aware of Noem’s letter “regarding subsidy cancellations and the scrutiny of foreign students’ visas.”
The spokesman said that the University supported his statement earlier for the week to “not deliver his independence or resign of his constitutional rights” while saying he will comply with the law.
The administration of President Donald Trump has threatened universities with federal fund cuts on the protests of the Pro-Palestine Campus.
The authorities also try to deport some foreign protesters and have revoked hundreds of visas throughout the country.
“With an endowment of $ 53.2 billion, Harvard can finance your own chaos, DHS No,” said Noem, and added an “anti-American ideology and pro-hamas” in Harvard.
Harvard has previously said that he worked to combat anti -Semitism and other prejudices in his campus while preserving academic freedoms and the right to protest.
Trump’s repression
The Trump administration said at the end of last month that it was reviewing $ 9 billion in federal contracts and subsidies to Harvard and then requested restrictions, including a prohibition of masks and the elimination of diversity, equity and inclusion programs, so that the university continues to receive federal money.
On Monday, Harvard rejected numerous demands that said they would give control to the government. The Trump administration said it was freezing $ 2.3 billion in funds.
Trump also threatened Tuesday to strip Harvard from his tax exempt. CNN On Wednesday he informed Wednesday that the US Internal Revenue Service was making plans to rescind Harvard’s tax and that a final decision was expected soon.
Harvard said there was no legal basis to terminate his tax exempt from taxes, saying that such action would not have precedents, his financial aid for students would decrease and lead to the abandonment of some critical medical research programs.
Human rights defenders have raised freedom of expression and concerns of academic freedom about government repression.
The Trump administration has frozen or canceled some funds for universities such as Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern too.
He has also threatened to retain funds on cultural war issues, such as diversity, equity and inclusion programs (DEI) and transgender policies.
