Trump accuses Harvard of being 'very slow' to turn over foreign student info

President Donald Trump has accused Harvard University of being "very slow" to crook implicit accusation connected overseas students. 

"We are inactive waiting for the Foreign Student Lists from Harvard truthful that we tin determine, aft a ridiculous expenditure of BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, however galore radicalized lunatics, troublemakers all, should not beryllium fto backmost into our Country," Trump wrote connected Truth Social Monday. 

"Harvard is precise dilatory successful the presumption of these documents, and astir apt for bully reason!" Trump wrote. "The champion happening Harvard has going for it is that they person shopped astir and recovered the implicit champion Judge (for them!) - But person nary fear, the Government will, successful the end, WIN!" 

JUDGE TEMPORARILY PAUSES TRUMP MOVE TO CANCEL HARVARD STUDENT VISA POLICY AFTER LAWSUIT

President Donald Trump arrives for a House Republican gathering astatine the U.S. Capitol connected May 20, 2025 successful Washington, D.C. (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)

In a abstracted post, Trump added Monday, "I americium considering taking Three Billion Dollars of Grant Money distant from a precise antisemitic Harvard, and giving it to TRADE SCHOOLS each crossed our land."

"What a large concern that would beryllium for the USA, and truthful severely needed!!!" helium wrote.

Fox News Digital reached retired to Harvard for comment.

Judge Allison D. Burroughs – who was appointed by erstwhile President Barack Obama – granted Harvard University a impermanent restraining bid connected Friday, preventing the authorities from revoking the Ivy League school's certification successful the Student and Exchange Visitor Program. The programme permits the assemblage to big planetary students with F-1 oregon J-1 visas to survey successful the U.S.

In a missive Thursday, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem informed Harvard's enactment that the assemblage had mislaid its "privilege" of enrolling overseas students arsenic a effect of the institution's "refusal to comply with aggregate requests to supply the Department of Homeland Security with pertinent accusation portion perpetuating an unsafe field situation that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies, and employs racist ‘diversity, equity and inclusion' policies." 

"This enactment should not astonishment you and is the unfortunate effect of Harvard’s nonaccomplishment to comply with elemental reporting requirements," Noem wrote. 

Anti-Israel protesters stitchery extracurricular Harvard University successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, connected April 25, 2025. (JOSEPH PREZIOSO/AFP via Getty Images)

Noem said she requested records pertaining to "nonimmigrant students" enrolled astatine Harvard, "including accusation regarding misconduct and different offenses that would render overseas students inadmissible oregon removable," connected April 16. 

Harvard’s counsel responded twice, but some responses were insufficient, according to the letter. 

TRUMP SAYS HARVARD'S FOREIGN STUDENTS ARE FROM COUNTRIES PAYING 'NOTHING' FOR THEIR EDUCATION

"Consequences indispensable travel to nonstop a wide awesome to Harvard and each universities that privation to bask the privilege of enrolling overseas students, that the Trump medication volition enforce the instrumentality and basal retired the evils of anti-Americanism and antisemitism successful nine and campuses," Noem wrote.

The requested records see immoderate and each audio oregon video footage successful Harvard’s possession regarding threats to different students oregon assemblage personnel, "deprivation of rights" of different classmates oregon assemblage personnel, and "dangerous oregon convulsive activity, whether connected oregon disconnected campus" by a nonimmigrant pupil enrolled astatine Harvard successful the past 5 years. Noem is besides asking for immoderate and each disciplinary records and audio oregon video footage of immoderate protestation enactment involving nonimmigrant students.

A pedestrian with an umbrella walks by Harvard Yard successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, connected May 22, 2025. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

The missive gave Harvard different 72 hours to comply and nonstop the requested accusation successful bid to regain its certification, but instead, Harvard filed the suit successful U.S. District Court successful Massachusetts aboriginal Friday. 

In its tribunal filing, Harvard said the revocation impacts much than 7,000 visa holders – much than a 4th of its pupil assemblage – and "is a blatant usurpation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act." 

"It is the latest enactment by the authorities successful wide retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to cull the government’s demands to power Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its module and students," the suit says. 

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Burroughs acceptable different proceeding connected the substance for Tuesday astatine 9:30 a.m. successful Boston national court.