[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 110 (Tuesday, June 10, 2025)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 24493-24496]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-10668]
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Vol. 90
Tuesday,
No. 110
June 10, 2025
Part II
The President
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Proclamation 10948--Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks at
Harvard University
Proclamation 10949--Restricting the Entry of Foreign Nationals To
Protect the United States From Foreign Terrorists and Other National
Security and Public Safety Threats
Presidential Documents
Federal Register / Vol. 90 , No. 110 / Tuesday, June 10, 2025 /
Presidential Documents
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Title 3--
The President
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Proclamation 10948 of June 4, 2025
Enhancing National Security by Addressing Risks
at Harvard University
By the President of the United States of America
A Proclamation
Admission into the United States to attend, conduct
research, or teach at our Nation's institutions of
higher education is a privilege granted by our
Government, not a guarantee. That privilege is
necessarily tied to the host institution's compliance
and commitment to following Federal law. Harvard
University has failed in this respect, among many
others.
The Student Exchange Visa Program (SEVP) depends
fundamentally on academic institutions' good faith,
transparency, and full adherence to the relevant
regulatory frameworks. This is for crucial national-
security reasons. The Federal Bureau of Investigation
(FBI) has long warned that foreign adversaries and
competitors take advantage of easy access to American
higher education to, among other things, steal
technical information and products, exploit expensive
research and development to advance their own
ambitions, and spread false information for political
or other reasons. Our adversaries, including the
People's Republic of China, try to take advantage of
American higher education by exploiting the student
visa program for improper purposes and by using
visiting students to collect information at elite
universities in the United States.
Protecting our national security requires host
institutions of foreign students to provide sufficient
information, when asked, to enable the Federal
Government to identify and address misconduct by those
foreign students. In my judgment, it presents an
unacceptable risk to our Nation's security for an
academic institution to refuse to provide sufficient
information, when asked, about known instances of
misconduct and criminality committed by its foreign
students. This principle is one reason why SEVP
regulations require foreign students to obey Federal
and State criminal laws and require universities to
keep records about foreign students' studies in the
United States--including records relating to criminal
activity by foreign students and resulting disciplinary
proceedings--and furnish them to the Department of
Homeland Security (DHS) on request.
Crime rates at Harvard University--including violent
crime rates--have drastically risen in recent years.
Harvard has failed to discipline at least some
categories of conduct violations on campus. Given these
facts, it is imperative, in my judgment, that the
Federal Government be able to assess and, if necessary,
address misconduct and crimes committed by foreign
students at Harvard.
Despite the risks described above, Harvard University
has refused the recent requests of the DHS for
information about foreign students' ``known illegal
activity,'' ``known dangerous and violent activity,''
``known threats to other students or university
personnel,'' ``known deprivation of rights of other
classmates or university personnel,'' and whether those
activities ``occurred on campus,'' and other related
data. Harvard provided data on misconduct by only three
students, and the data it provided was so deficient
that the DHS could not evaluate whether it should take
further actions. Harvard's actions show that it either
is not fully reporting its disciplinary records for
foreign students or is not seriously policing its
foreign students. In
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my judgment, these actions and failures directly
undermine the Federal Government's ability to ensure
that foreign nationals admitted on student or exchange
visitor visas remain in compliance with Federal law.
These concerns have compelled the Federal Government to
conclude that Harvard University is no longer a
trustworthy steward of international student and
exchange visitor programs. When a university refuses to
uphold its legal obligations, including its
recordkeeping and reporting obligations, the
consequences ripple far beyond the campus. They
jeopardize the integrity of the entire United States
student and exchange visitor visa system, compromise
national security, and embolden other institutions to
similarly disregard the rule of law.
Harvard University has also developed extensive
entanglements with foreign countries, including our
adversaries. According to The Harvard Crimson, Harvard
has received more than $150 million in total
contributions from foreign governments over the last 5
years, and over $1 billion from foreign sources. Over
the last 10 years, Harvard has received more than $150
million from China alone. In exchange, Harvard has,
among other things, ``repeatedly hosted and trained
members of a Chinese Communist Party paramilitary
organization,'' according to a probe by the House of
Representatives Select Committee on the Chinese
Communist Party. Harvard researchers have also
partnered with China-based individuals on research that
could advance China's military modernization, according
to the same probe.
Finally, Harvard University continues to flout the
civil rights of its students and faculty, triggering
multiple Federal investigations. Harvard's
discrimination against disfavored races in admissions
was so blatant that the Supreme Court decision ending
the practice nationwide bears Harvard's name. Yet even
after that Supreme Court decision, Harvard and its
affiliated organizations on campus continue to deny
hardworking Americans equal opportunities. Instead of
those Americans, Harvard admits students from non-
egalitarian nations, including nations that seek the
destruction of the United States and its allies, or the
extermination of entire peoples. It is not in the
interest of the United States to further compound
Harvard's discrimination against non-preferred races,
national origins, shared ancestries, or religions by
further reducing opportunities for American students
through excessive foreign student enrollment.
Considering these facts, I have determined that it is
necessary to restrict the entry of foreign nationals
who seek to enter the United States solely or
principally to participate in a course of study at
Harvard University or in an exchange visitor program
hosted by Harvard University. Such restrictions are
authorized under sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the
Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), 8 U.S.C. 1182(f)
and 1185(a), which authorize the President to suspend
entry of any class of aliens whose entry would be
detrimental to the interests of the United States. I
have determined that the entry of the class of foreign
nationals described above is detrimental to the
interests of the United States because, in my judgment,
Harvard's conduct has rendered it an unsuitable
destination for foreign students and researchers. Until
such time as the university shares the information that
the Federal Government requires to safeguard national
security and the American public, it is in the national
interest to deny foreign nationals access to Harvard
under the auspices of educational exchange.
NOW, THEREFORE, I, DONALD J. TRUMP, President of the
United States of America, by the authority vested in me
by the Constitution and the laws of the United States
of America, including sections 212(f) and 215(a) of the
INA, 8 U.S.C. 1182(f) and 1185(a), and section 301 of
title 3, United States Code, hereby find that, absent
the measures set forth in this proclamation, the entry
into the United States of persons described in section
1 of this proclamation would, except as provided for in
section 2 of this proclamation, be detrimental to the
interests of the United States, and that their entry
should be subject to certain restrictions, limitations,
and exceptions. I hereby proclaim as follows:
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Section 1. Suspension of Entry. The entry of any alien
into the United States as a nonimmigrant to pursue a
course of study at Harvard University under section
101(a)(15)(F) or section 101(a)(15)(M) of the INA, 8
U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(F) or 1101(a)(15)(M), or to
participate in an exchange visitor program hosted by
Harvard University under section 101(a)(15)(J) of the
INA, 8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(15)(J), is suspended and limited,
subject to section 2 of this proclamation. That
suspension and limitation shall expire, absent
extension, 6 months after the date of this
proclamation.
Sec. 2. Scope and Implementation of Suspension and
Limitation on Entry. (a) The suspension and limitation
on entry pursuant to section 1 of this proclamation
shall apply to aliens who enter or attempt to enter the
United States to begin attending Harvard University
through the SEVP after the date of this proclamation.
(b) The Secretary of State shall consider, in the
Secretary's discretion, whether foreign nationals who
currently attend Harvard University and are in the
United States pursuant to F, M, or J visas and who
otherwise meet the criteria described in section 1 of
this proclamation should have their visas revoked
pursuant to section 221(i) of the INA, 8 U.S.C.
1201(i).
(c) The suspension and limitation on entry pursuant
to section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply to
any alien who enters the United States to attend other
universities through the SEVP.
(d) The suspension and limitation on entry pursuant
to section 1 of this proclamation shall not apply to
any alien whose entry would be in the national
interest, as determined by the Secretary of State, the
Secretary of Homeland Security, or their respective
designees.
(e) No later than 90 days after the date of this
proclamation, the Attorney General and the Secretary of
Homeland Security shall jointly submit to the
President, through the Assistant to the President for
National Security Affairs, a recommendation on whether
an extension or renewal of the suspension and
limitation on entry in section 1 of this proclamation
is in the interests of the United States.
Sec. 3. Operational Action to Implement this Order. The
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and the
Secretary of Homeland Security shall coordinate to take
all necessary and appropriate action to implement this
proclamation. The Secretary of State, the Attorney
General, and the Secretary of Homeland Security shall
also consider using their respective authorities under
the INA to impose limitations on Harvard University's
ability to participate in the SEVP and the Student and
Exchange Visitor Information System. Any such actions
should include an exception for any alien whose entry
would be in the national interest, as determined by the
Secretary of State, the Secretary of Homeland Security,
or their respective designees.
Sec. 4. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this
proclamation shall be construed to impair or otherwise
affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or
the head thereof; or
(ii) the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget
relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.
(b) This proclamation shall be implemented
consistent with applicable law and subject to the
availability of appropriations.
(c) This proclamation is not intended to, and does
not, create any right or benefit, substantive or
procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any
party against the United States, its departments,
agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or
agents, or any other person.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this
fourth day of June, in the year of our Lord two
thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the
United States of America the two hundred and forty-
ninth.
(Presidential Sig.)
[FR Doc. 2025-10668
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