The United States Internal Security Department (DHS) said that the Harvard University would lose his ability to save foreign students if he did not meet Trump's administration demands to share information about some visa holders, marking the last escalation of the government against the educational institution.
On Wednesday, the secretary of the Internal Security Department of Kristi Noem announced two DHS subsidies worth over $ 2.7 million per Harvard.
Noem said she wrote a letter to Harvard, demanding registration about what she called “illegal and brutal actions” of foreign visas for Harvard students until April 30.
“And if Harvard cannot check if he is fully in accordance with the reporting requirements, the university will lose the privilege of registration of foreign students,” Noem said in a statement.
Harvard spokesman said that the university was aware of Noem's letter “regarding the cancellation of subsidies and foreign visas.”
The spokesman said that the university upheld his statement earlier this week, so as not to give up his independence or give up his constitutional rights “, saying that he would be lawful.
Conflict for protest activities
The administration of US President Donald Trump threatened the Federal Universities of financing cuts in relation to protests in the pro-Palestinian campus against the military destroyer of the American Israel's ally on gauze after the deadly attack of Palestinian fighters Hamas.
Trump throws protesters as a threat of foreign policy, which are anti -Semitic and nice to Hamas. Protesters, including some Jewish groups, say that Trump's administration wrongly combines their support for Palestinian laws and criticism of Israel's actions in Gazia with the support of extremism and anti -Semitism.
Some claimed that external people support the pro-Palestinian protests of students in campus in the USA and Canada. Ben Makuch from CBC checked these claims to find out what is really going on.
The Trump administration is also trying to deport some foreign protesters and withdrew hundreds of visas throughout the country.
Harvard said earlier that he worked on the fight against anti -Semitism and other prejudices in his campus, keeping academic freedom and the right to protest.
Trump's administration said that at the end of last month she looked at $ 9 billion on federal contracts and subsidies for Harvard, and later called for restrictions – including a ban on mask and removing diversity, own capital and integration programs – to introduce the university for further receiving federal money.
Harvard rejected many demands on Monday to say that he would check the government's control. Trump's administration later He said he freezed $ 2.3 billion in financing.
On Tuesday, Trump also threatened to deprive Harvard of his tax exemption status. CNN announced on Wednesday that the US service of the United States rules planned to cancel the status of Harvard's exemption and soon the final decision was expected.
Harvard said that there are no legal grounds to cancel the status of tax exemption, saying that such action will be unprecedented, reduce financial assistance for students and lead to the abandonment of some critical medical research programs.
Scientists feel a pinch
Since the end of World War II, the government has identified strategic areas of public health research, army or other areas. Then scientists respond by proposing projects from which less than 10 percent can receive federal funds.
For decades, universities provided infrastructure and administration for these joint projects. Scientists are most often independent of universities, without didactic duties or connections with student policy, which raised universities' relations with the federal government.
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A scientist from Harvard, Dr. Donald Ingber, who works, where medicine and engineering will meet, told Reuters that he saw two government research agreements worth over $ 20 million, since Trump's administration announced the freezing of funding worth $ 2.3 billion.
According to Ingber, one focused on assessing and developing drugs to combat radiation damage to humans. Works can be the basis of drugs that help patients with cancer cancer by dealing with the side effects of radiation therapy and can be used to protect soldiers and civilians in the case of nuclear war or during nuclear plants.
Ingber also said that he knows about post-Doc candidates who are now rejecting the US research positions that they accepted because they are afraid to live in the US as foreigners. They turn to China or Europe to do their work.
“We were a magnet for the best young scientists around the world who came and realized innovations,” said Ingber.
The US judge ruled that a graduate and a pro-Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil may be deported as a threat to national security. Khalil was the first arrest of the promised repression of Trump's administration during protests in the campus.
A spokesman for the White House, Kush Desai, said that the freezing of funds on Harvard and Colombia “is motivated by one thing and only one thing: the fight against anti -Semitism.”
“Anti -Semitic protesters causing violence and taking over the entire buildings at the university campus is not only a primitive demonstration of bigotry against Jewish Americans, but completely disturbing the intellectual investigation and research that the federal financing of the university is intended to support,” said Desai.
Human rights supporters raised concerns about freedom of speech and academic freedom regarding the government's repression.
Trump's administration frozen or canceled funds to universities such as Columbia, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and Northwestern.