The administration of President Donald Trump has launched an investigation into nine leading US universities, including Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, over allegations that they improperly used J-1 exchange visitor visas to employ foreign researchers at lower wages than American workers, Vice President JD Vance announced Thursday.
The investigation, disclosed October 8, is being conducted by the Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General, which has issued subpoenas seeking information about visa practices, foreign funding, and possible foreign influence in university research.
The institutions under scrutiny are Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Brown, Arizona State University, the University of Pittsburgh, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the California Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Davis.
Vance accused the universities of relying excessively on…
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