Washington (AP)-The government of President Donald Trump has escalated her ongoing fight against Harvard and threatens to revoke the ability of the university to accommodate international students when the president demanded that Harvard’s tax-exhausted status be withdrawn.
The Ministry of Homeland Protection ordered Harvard tardy Tuesday until April 30, “detailed records” of the “illegal and violent activities of the foreign student visumers”. International students make up 27% of the campus.
The department also said that it canceled two grants to the school of a total of 2.7 million US dollars.
The steps deepen the procedure against Harvard, which was the first university on Monday, which dismisses the requirements of the administration in connection with activism on campus, anti -Semitism and diversity. The Federal Government has already frozen grants and contracts of more than 2 billion US dollars to the Ivy League institution.
Trump proposed on Tuesday on social media that Harvard should lose his tax -exhaustive status.
The influence on the federal money for research in Harvard was the seventh time that the administration took such a step on one of the country’s elite college. The government tries to force compliance with Trump’s political agenda into schools, which he accuses of “waking up politics” and letting anti -Semitism fuel.
In a letter to Harvard on Friday, Trump’s government called for a broad government and management reforms at the university as well as changes to the admission guidelines. It also demanded that the university examination views about the diversity on campus and the recognition of some student clubs no longer recognize.
Harvard President Alan Garber said on Monday that the university would not bend the government’s claims. Later on this day, the White House announced the freezing of more than $ 2.2 billion in grants and a contracts of $ 60 million.
Conservative strategist Christopher Rufo said that the government should react to Harvards despite being voted on all federal money and stripping non -profit status with Harvard and other Ivies that oppose the federal regulations. Rufo urged the government to operate the same instruments it used during the civil rights movement to force Deseg regulation.
“Trump has to make his threat to remove one of the Ivy League universities,” said Rufo on Tuesday on social media. “Cut the financing and watch how the university implodes.”
Rufo said that Harvard had discriminated against white and Asian American students and specifically for certain ethnic groups and an exclusive theater performance 2021 “for black identifying spectators” specifically for certain ethnic groups.
For the Trump administration, Harvard presents the first major hurdle in her attempt to force changes to universities, from which Republicans have become breeding sites of liberalism and anti -Semitism.
Trump’s campaign began at Columbia University, which initially approved several demands of the Trump administration, but received according to Harvards despite a more encouraging tone. The incumbent president of Columbia, Claire Shipman, said on Monday in a campus message that some of the demands “are not subject to the negotiation” and that she read “great interest” about Harvard’s rejection.
Trump has addressed the schools, some of the government’s demands are directly available in this activism and ask Harvard to impose demonstrators tougher discipline and check international students for those who “are hostile to American values”.
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