EXCLUSIVE: DHS Cuts Harvard Grants, Threatens Student Visas

President Donald Trump s administration lashed back at Harvard University on Wednesday, with the Department of Homeland Security cutting over $2.7 million in grants and threatening to cancel all student visas, according to a press release obtained exclusively by The Free Press. The move comes two days after Harvard refused to agree to a series of demands by the administration, and Harvard s president Alan Garber said that the university will not surrender its independence or relinquish its constitutional rights.

The DHS release states that Harvard is unfit to be entrusted with taxpayer dollars.

The funding cuts announced Wednesday include slashing over $800,000 for the Implementation Science for Targeted Violence Prevention grant and over $1.9 million to the Blue Campaign Program Evaluation and Violence Advisement grant, a program aimed at training police officers to increase detection and investigation of human trafficking.

Far more significant, DHS is demanding detailed records on Harvard s foreign student visa holders illegal and violent activities by April 30, 2025, according to a letter sent to Harvard s International Office and reviewed exclusively by The Free Press. Specifically, the letter requests each student visa holder s known illegal activity in addition to these students known dangerous or violent activity, including threats, deprivation of rights of other classmates, and any information regarding obstruction of the school s learning environment.

The department views this as a direct response to the response from Harvard, a source within the DHS told The Free Press. It follows the administration s decision on Monday to freeze $2.2 billion in federal grants and contracts. It s very important that if they are receiving money from the federal government, they know that money is a privilege and not a right, said the source. Compliance with federal law and regulations is not an optional box they can check and uncheck at will.

via www.thefp.com

I wasn’t expecting the confrontation with the American elite be so direct or so soon.