The US is also threatening to expand the crackdown to other colleges.

Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem ordered the department to terminate Harvard University's Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification effective for the 2025 to 2026 school year, the department said in a statement.

Noem accused the University of “fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party."

Harvard said the move by the Trump administration, which affects thousands of students, was illegal and amounted to retaliation.

The decision marked a significant escalation of the Trump administration’s campaign against the elite Ivy League University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has emerged as one of Trump's most prominent institutional targets.

--Reuters--