Trump administration blocks Harvard University from enrolling foreign students

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security is ending Harvard University's eligibility to enroll foreign students in a dramatic escalation of tensions between the prestigious school and the Trump administration.

Lee Seung-jae has details.

The Trump administration has barred Harvard University from enrolling international students moving forward.

According to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security on Thursday, it has revoked the school's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification saying that Harvard "has created an unsafe campus environment by permitting anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically assault individuals, including many Jewish students, and otherwise obstruct its once-venerable learning environment."

The DHS added that many of the "agitators are foreign students."

The latest ban also means that currently enrolled students at the Ivy League school must transfer or lose their legal status.

The move comes as Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the DHS to terminate the school's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification, due to the university's refusal to hand over the conduct records of international students, as requested last month.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Noem said that her department is "absolutely" considering similar measures for other universities, including Columbia University.

She stressed that what has happened to Harvard should be a warning to all other universities to get their "act together."

The Trump administration's revoking of Harvard's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification means 68-hundred international students enrolled in the school must transfer to keep hold of their legal status in the U.S.

Lee Seung-jae, Arirang News.