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First on FOX: president Donald Trump’s The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) sent an administrative subpoena to Harvard University today regarding information on crime and misconduct among foreign students on campus.
The agency criticized Ivy League School “Refusal to cooperate” with previous information requests regarding Harvard University Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) provides visas for non-citizens to study in the United States
“We tried to do things in an easy way at Harvard,” DHS Deputy Chief Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News Digital. “Now, we have to do things the hard way, refusing to cooperate with them. Harvard, like other universities, has allowed foreign students to misuse visa privileges and defend violence and terrorism on campus.”
Banner for the Harry Elkinswidener Memorial Library on Harvard University Campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts on Tuesday, May 27, 2025. (Sophie Park/Bloomberg)
“If Harvard doesn’t defend the interests of its students, we do.”
The administrative subpoena is the latest legal move in the battle between the Trump administration and elite universities. The SEVP was a key issue after anti-Semitic protests escalated across campus amid the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Force an apology From Harvard President Alan Gerber.
A source from DHS told Fox News Digital that the subpoena was the only option left for the agency after repeatedly denying non-strong requests for information by the university. The department has been seeking related records, communications and other documents relating to immigration law or crime since January 1, 2020.
The demonstrators will protest Harvard’s stance on the war in Gaza and gather in Cambridge, which supports Palestinians outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 25, 2025, in protest of Harvard University. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
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Refusing to comply with administrative subpoena results in heavy consequences such as civil penalties, criminal charges, court empts, and/or audits and inspections of the organization.
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem He had previously pledged that non-compliance would cancel the Student and Exchange Visitors Program, as he had requested Harvard to provide information about criminal misconduct this April.
Harvard sent some information to the DHS following the initial request, but Noem considered Ivy League University data as “inadequate, incomplete and unacceptable responses.”
Late May, DHS has moved to be officially cancelled Harvard’s SEVP affected about a quarter of Harvard’s student organizations, preventing the university from issuing student visas and registering international students.
President Donald Trump speaks to the secretary of Homeland Security’s Department of Homeland Security’s secretary, Christie Noem, as he tours the Immigration Detention Center called “Crocois, Alcatraz” at the location of the Dade Collier Training and Transition Airport in O’Copy, Florida on July 1, 2025. (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP)
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Harvard responded with a lawsuit titled “Titled” to cancel Noem’s program. President and Fellow of Harvard University. DHSclaims that the Trump administration’s decision to block the SEVP is unconstitutional and retaliatory.
“It’s the latest act by the government in explicit retaliation for exercising its initial amendment rights to reject Harvard’s governance, curriculum and the “ideology” of its faculty and students,” Harvard wrote in his May complaint.
US District Judge Allison D. Burrows of Massachusetts, who was appointed President Barack Obama in 2014, granted a temporary restraining order request from Harvard University after the lawsuit was filed.
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The ongoing temporary restraining order allows Harvard to issue visa documents through the Student and Exchange Visitors Program and continue to register students.
Fox News Digital contacted Harvard University but did not receive a response.
Preston Mizell is an author of Fox News Digital, which covers Breaking News. Story tips can be sent to preston.mizell@fox.com and x @mizellpreston
