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Tengrinews.kz – U.S. President Donald Trump stated that foreign students at Harvard come from countries that “pay nothing” for their education. “We want to know who these foreign students are,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, according to Fox News.
On Sunday, President Trump criticized foreign governments for not contributing financially to the education of their citizens who attend Harvard and other U.S. institutions.
“Why isn’t Harvard saying that almost 31% of their students are from FOREIGN LANDS, and yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s education, nor do they ever intend to. We want to know who those foreign students are, a reasonable request since we give Harvard BILLIONS OF DOLLARS, but Harvard isn’t exactly forthcoming,” Trump posted early Sunday on Truth Social.
According to the U.S. president, Harvard has $52 million at its disposal and shouldn’t ask the federal government for further funding.
On Friday, a judge temporarily blocked the administration from canceling Harvard’s student visa program after the university filed a lawsuit against the federal government.
Harvard argues that the policy would affect over 7,000 visa holders — nearly a quarter of its student body — and that the administration’s actions are a “blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act,” according to the lawsuit.
“It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students,” the complaint states.
As a reminder, the Department of Homeland Security decided to terminate Harvard’s visa program after the university allegedly failed to provide the agency with requested detailed data on the behavior of student visa holders.
Kazakhstan’s Ministry of Science and Higher Education has commented on the situation regarding the expulsion of Kazakh students from Harvard University.
