President Donald Trump moved to bar Harvard University’s international students from entering the U.S. and asked Secretary of State Marco Rubio to consider revoking the visas of Harvard students already in the country in a new proclamation Wednesday night .

A Harvard spokesperson called the restriction “illegal” in a statement to The New York Times , adding that the university would “continue to protect its international students.”

The proclamation is the latest action against Harvard by the Trump White House in its ongoing feud with the university over its rebukes of the administration’s attempts to reshape it, but it is the first time the president has taken direct action against Harvard using the powers of the presidency.

In the proclamation, the president asserts that Harvard

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