Trump defends block on overseas college students at Harvard

U.S. President Donald Trump defended on Sunday (Might 25, 2025) his administration’s transfer to dam overseas college students at Harvard after a choose suspended the motion, branded by the highest college as illegal.
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U.S. President Donald Trump defended on Sunday (Might 25, 2025) his administration’s transfer to dam overseas college students at Harvard after a choose suspended the motion, branded by the highest college as illegal.

“Why is not Harvard saying that just about 31% of their college students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and but these nations, some under no circumstances pleasant to the US, pay NOTHING towards their scholar’s training, nor do they ever intend to,” Mr. Trump posted on his Fact Social platform.

“We need to know who these overseas college students are, an inexpensive request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, however Harvard is not precisely forthcoming.”

Homeland Safety Secretary Kristi Noem on Thursday (Might 21, 2025) revoked Harvard’s capacity to enroll overseas nationals, throwing the way forward for hundreds of scholars and the profitable earnings stream they supply into doubt.

She had threatened final month to dam worldwide college students on the college except it turned over data on visa holders’ “unlawful and violent actions.”

However a choose shortly suspended the transfer after the college sued to “cease the federal government’s arbitrary, capricious, illegal, and unconstitutional motion.”

The White Home is cracking down on U.S. universities on a number of fronts, justified as a response to what the administration says is uncontrolled anti-Semitism and a must reverse range applications geared toward addressing historic oppression of minorities.

It has additionally moved to revoke visas and deport overseas college students concerned in protests in opposition to the battle in Gaza, accusing them of supporting Palestinian militant group Hamas.

At Harvard, the federal government has threatened to place $9 billion of funding underneath overview, then went on to freeze a primary tranche of $2.2 billion of grants and $60 million of official contracts. It has additionally focused a Harvard Medical College researcher for deportation.

The lack of overseas nationals — greater than 1 / 4 of its scholar physique — may show pricey to Harvard, which prices tens of hundreds of {dollars} a 12 months in tuition.

Harvard is the wealthiest U.S. college with an endowment valued at $53.2 billion in 2024.