Kristi Noem Tells Fox News Her Ban On All of Harvard’s Foreign Students is a ‘Warning to Every Other University’
Fox News anchor Gillian Turner interviewed Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday, following the Trump administration’s ban on Harvard from enrolling any and all foreign students.
Turner and Noem began speaking about anti-Semitism on campus as Turner asked if the secretary agrees with the Israeli consul in New York accusing Qatar of funding anti-Israel movements on campuses.
“But, do you believe, Madam Secretary, that the Qataris in particular are behind a lot of the anti-Semitism you just described. Are they providing fuel that creates this fire?” Turner asked.
“You know, I’m not an expert in this area. I think that there’s validity to what he has said, but I also think that we’ve got a lot of influences here, and we’ve got a lot of people that have facilitated this that have a different agenda. Some of these universities have even barred law enforcement officers from coming on campus, and haven’t even allowed there to be basic law and order on the areas that they’re responsible for,” Noem replied, adding:
We’re going to continue to do our investigations and make sure that what the Department of Homeland Security is responsible for will be done with integrity in the way that Congress laid out that these programs should work and the opportunities that we have to allow people to come into this country, learn, and to be a part of a country that promotes freedom and liberty and where everybody is equal. That’s not what Harvard is doing and that’s not what we’re seeing in some of these college campuses.
“Could you foresee or are you now considering similar moves with other universities like Columbia that has allowed Jewish students to be threatened and made unsafe?” Turner followed up.
“Absolutely. We are absolutely—this should be a warning to every other university to get your act together. Get your act together, because we are coming to make sure that these programs, that you are facilitating an environment where students can learn, where they’re safe, and that they’re not discriminated against based on their race or their religion,” Noem replied. Adding:
Anti-Semitism will not be stood for, and any participation with a country or an entity or a terrorist group that hates America and perpetuates this kind of violence—we will stop it and we will not allow that to happen, especially in places where our kids need to grow up and really learn what this country is about, what the world is about, and what it means to promote freedom and liberty.
Noem’s revoking Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification means that the current 6,800 international students attached to the university must either transfer schools or lose their legal status in the U.S.
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