Harvard University refused to accept a deal with the Trump administration two weeks after the US government threatened to halt $9 billion in funding, vowing it won’t “negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights.”

Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Wednesday it will begin screening immigrants' social media accounts for signs of antisemitic activity, which could be used as grounds to deny applications for immigration benefits.

The move was quickly met with criticism from free speech advocates, who argued the government should not be using its authority to chill the freedom of speech of its residents, including immigrants who are in the country on a visa or green card.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has announced it will begin screening immigrants' social media for evidence of antisemitic activity as grounds for denying immigration benefit requests. The screenings will affect people applying for permanent residence status as well as foreigners affiliated with educational institutions. The policy will go into effect immediately.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services will now start considering migrants’ antisemitic activity on social media as "grounds for denying immigration benefit requests," with Homeland Security vowing there is "no room in the United States for the rest of the world’s terrorist sympathizers." Homeland Security announced Wednesday that the change will "immediately affect aliens applying for lawful permanent resident status, foreign students and aliens affiliated with educational institutions linked to antisemitic activity." "Today U.S.

The Trump administration plans on halting $510 million of federal grants to Brown University because of the administration’s alleged failure to address campus antisemitism and their continuation of diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.

Brown University is set to become the latest Ivy League university to have its funds halted over its campus antisemitism, joining a list that includes Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania.

WASHINGTON, April 3 (Reuters) - The U.S. government plans to freeze grants to Brown University and separately set conditions that Harvard University must meet - including a mask ban and removal of diversity, equity and inclusion programs - to receive federal money.

The Trump administration is taking aim at Brown University with threats to freeze $510m in grants, widening its promise to withhold federal funding from schools it accuses of allowing antisemitism on campus, according to multiple media outlets including Reuters and the New York Times.

University officials said they had not yet been formally notified, but the school was among dozens warned last month that enforcement actions could be coming as the administration seeks to crack down on academic institutions .

The Trump administration announced Monday it will “review” nearly $9 billion of federal funding for Harvard University and its affiliates, such as area hospitals, in an effort to “root out antisemitism,” according to the government’s antisemitism task force.

Harvard University is the latest target of the Trump administration’s ever-expanding investigation into elite universities.

The Trump administration has opened an examination of the government’s financial relationship with Harvard University, an indication that the nation’s richest college could be the next to lose its federal contracts and grants over its handling of campus antisemitism.