Trump Administration Investigating Nine Universities — Including Harvard, Yale, Stanford, and MIT — for Flouting Foreign Worker Rules

The Trump administration is going after nine elite universities on suspicion of visa fraud, accusing them of unlawfully benefiting financially from hiring and admitting foreign nationals.

Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, the University of Pittsburgh, UC Davis, Caltech, Arizona State, and MIT are under examination by federal investigators, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday, suggesting the schools are exploiting the J-1 exchange visitor visa program to import cheaper students from overseas and skirt employment obligations to US citizens.

“Something weird is going on at these universities,” said Vance. “They’re using these visas way too much. They’re using them to undercut the wages of American grad students and American researchers, and it simply has to stop.”

The VP claimed that 61% of researchers working on federally funded grant projects across the nine universities are J-1 visa holders, compared to the national average of 38%. {snip}

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