Trump, Harvard and General Services Administration
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The Department of Homeland Security announced on Wednesday that it is subpoenaing Harvard University for international student records as the Ivy League institution battles the Trump administration’s ban on foreign students in court.
A federal judge ordered that five Department of Homeland Security reports on potential criminal activity by student and faculty protesters be shown in court Thursday, overruling the federal government’s repeated requests to keep the documents from the public eye.
We tried to do things the easy way with Harvard. Now, through their refusal to cooperate, we have to do things the hard way,” DHS Secretary Kristi Noem declared.
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Websites for Harvard College centers serving minority students, LGBTQ students and women vanished on Wednesday, according to reporting by The Harvard Crimson, marking the continued unraveling of diversity initiatives at the nation’s most prestigious university as it faces continued pressure from the Trump administration.
The subpoenas come as Harvard and the Trump administration have sparred for months about the school’s more than 7,000 foreign visa holders.
The Department of Homeland Security issued a subpoena to Harvard on Wednesday, demanding documents related to alleged misconduct by international students and the school’s compliance with federal immigration law.