President Donald Trump criticized foreign countries on Sunday for having paid “nothing” towards the education of their citizens who attend Harvard University and other American institutions.
This comes in the middle of the fight between the Trump administration and Harvard for its plans to revoke the university's ability to register foreign students.
“Why does Harvard not say that almost 31% of their students come from foreign lands, and yet these countries, some steps at all friendly in the United States, pay nothing to the education of their student, and they do not intend it,” wrote Trump early on Sunday morning. “No one told us that!”
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President Donald Trump criticized foreign countries for having paid “nothing” to the education of their citizens who attend Harvard University and other American institutions. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)
“We want to know who these foreign students are, a reasonable demand because we give Harvard billions of dollars, but Harvard is not exactly to come,” he continued. “We want these names and these countries. Harvard has $ 52,000,000, use it and stop asking the federal government to continue to grant you money!”
Friday, a judge temporarily prevented the administration from canceling the Harvard student visa program after the university filed a complaint against the federal government.
Harvard argued that the policy would affect more than 7,000 visa holders – almost a quarter of the student body – and that the administration's effort is a “blatant violation of the first amendment, the regular procedure clause and the administrative procedure law”, according to his judicial file.
“This is the last act of the government in clear reprisals for Harvard exercising his first amendment rights to reject the government's requests to control Harvard's governance, the study program and the ideology of his teachers and students,” Harvard wrote in his complaint.
A Higher School of Arts and Sciences Flag on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, Wednesday, April 16, 2025. (Getty Images)
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The Department of Internal Security has moved to the termination of the Harvard visa program after the university has failed to provide in -depth behavioral files for student visa holders that the agency had requested.
The files sought include any sequence of protest activity involving holders of student visas, even if it is not criminal, and the disciplinary archives of all holders of student visa in the last five years.
The requested files also include images or documents of illegal, dangerous or violent activity by student visa holders, threat files or deprivation of other students or university staff.
The DHS had moved to end the Harvard visa program after the university failed to provide extensive behavioral files for student visa holders that the agency had requested. (Andrew Harrer / Bloomberg via Getty Images)
Harvard called the new “Pernicious” policy and accused the administration of leaving “decades of established practice” and of coming “without rational explanation”. The university also said that politics had been “suddenly carried out without any of the solid procedures that the government had established to prevent this type of upheaval to thousands of students of students”.
At least a dozen Harvard students revoked their student visas on campus protest. Secretary of state Marco Rubio Before the Congress on Tuesday, the administration said that the administration probably revoked thousands of people and revoke “proudly” more.
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The administration has already frozen nearly $ 3 billion in university federal funding, largely dedicated to research, on the statements according to which Harvard has not responded sufficiently to the anti -Semitism of the campus alleged in demonstrations and has not decided to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion practices.
Fox News Morgan Phillips contributed to this report.
