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President Donald Trump connected Sunday criticized overseas countries for paying "nothing" toward the acquisition of their citizens who are attending assemblage astatine Harvard and different U.S. institutions.
This comes amid the combat betwixt the Trump medication and Harvard for its plans to revoke the university's quality to enroll overseas students.
"Why isn’t Harvard saying that astir 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, immoderate not astatine each affable to the United States, wage NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor bash they ever mean to," Trump wrote aboriginal Sunday greeting connected Truth Social. "Nobody told america that!"
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President Donald Trump criticized overseas countries for paying "nothing" towards the acquisition of their citizens who are attending assemblage astatine Harvard and different U.S. institutions. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
"We privation to cognize who those overseas students are, a tenable petition since we springiness Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t precisely forthcoming," helium continued. "We privation those names and countries. Harvard has $52,000,000, usage it, and halt asking for the Federal Government to proceed GRANTING wealth to you!"
On Friday, a justice temporarily blocked the medication from canceling Harvard's pupil visa programme aft the assemblage filed a suit against the national government.
Harvard argued that the argumentation would impact much than 7,000 visa holders — astir a 4th of the student body — and that the administration's effort is simply a "blatant usurpation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act," according to its tribunal filing.
"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," Harvard wrote successful its complaint.
A Graduate School of Arts and Sciences emblem connected the Harvard University field successful Cambridge, Massachusetts, US, connected Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Getty Images)
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The Department of Homeland Security moved to terminate Harvard's visa programme aft the assemblage allegedly failed to supply extended behavioral records of pupil visa holders the bureau had requested.
The records sought see immoderate footage of protestation enactment involving pupil visa holders, adjacent if it's not criminal, and the disciplinary records of each pupil visa holders successful the past 5 years.
Requested records besides see footage oregon documentation of illegal, unsafe oregon convulsive enactment by pupil visa holders, immoderate records of threats oregon the deprivation of rights of different students oregon assemblage personnel.
DHS had moved to terminate Harvard's visa programme aft the assemblage allegedly failed to supply extended behavioral records of pupil visa holders the bureau had requested. (Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Harvard called the caller argumentation "pernicious" and accused the medication of departing from "decades of settled practice" and coming "without rational explanation." The assemblage besides said the argumentation was "carried retired abruptly without immoderate of the robust procedures the authorities has established to forestall conscionable this benignant of upheaval to thousands of students’ lives."
At slightest a twelve Harvard students person had their pupil visas revoked implicit field protestation activity. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said earlier Congress connected Tuesday that the medication has astir apt revoked thousands already and would "proudly" revoke more.
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The medication has already frozen adjacent to $3 cardinal successful national backing to the university, mostly dedicated to research, implicit claims that Harvard has not adequately responded to alleged field antisemitism successful protests and has not moved to destruct diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Fox News' Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
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