Trump Administration Revokes Harvard's Ability To Enroll Foreign Students

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's a privilege, not a right for universities to enroll
foreign students. Those are the words of Homeland Security Secretary
Christi Nome in a letter to Harvard University. She's ordered
her department to terminate the school's student exchange certification. According
to Nome, Harvard will no longer be able to enroll
foreign students, and ones already at the school must transfer
or lose their legal status. Her letter goes on to

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say that Harvard has created an unsafe campus environment by
allowing anti American and pro terrorist agitators on campus. This
comes after Harvard lost roughly three billion dollars in funding
from the federal government for not complying with the administration's policies.
In response, Harvard says the government's actions are unlawful and
that they are fully committed to maintaining the school's ability

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to host international students. Brook McCarthy WZ Boston's news radio