State Department Announces Investigation Into Harvard's Use Of International Visas

Secretary of State State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that nan State Department is opening an investigation into Harvard University’s compliance pinch nan government-run visa programme for world students.

Rubio said successful a connection that each sponsors of nan programme "must comply pinch each regulations, including conducting their programs successful a mode that does not undermine nan overseas argumentation objectives aliases discuss nan nationalist information interests of nan United States."

"The American group person nan correct to expect their universities to uphold nationalist security, comply pinch nan law, and supply safe environments for each students," Rubio said. "The investigation will guarantee that State Department programs do not tally contrary to our nation’s interests."

Harvard did not instantly return an NBC News petition for comment.

The investigation comes amid wider, months-long ineligible conflict betwixt nan nation’s oldest assemblage and nan Trump administration.

The New York Times first reported nan State Department's investigation.