Posted on 05/26/2025 3:49:40 AM PDT by george76
President Donald Trump on Sunday blasted Harvard’s secrecy when it comes to the university’s large number of students from foreign countries.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said: “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. Nobody told us that!
“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. We want those names and countries.
The president concluded: “Harvard has $52,000,000, use it, and stop asking for the Federal Government to continue GRANTING money to you!”
As WorldNetDaily reported, Harvard has sued the federal government to keep the privilege of enrolling foreign students, a lucrative source of revenue for the college as well, additionally, a path to international influence.
The Trump administration had revoked the school’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a dispute over Harvard’s decision to refuse to cooperate with the government on issues including student protests, anti-Semitism and even cooperation with China, explodes.
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The administration has explained Harvard has refused to comply with a list of demands sent to the school in April regarding student protests, many being anti-Israel and pro-Hamas, the anti-Semitism present on campus and allegations that the school has allowed infiltration by the Chinese Communist Party.
Republicans on the House Select Committee on China and the House Committee on Education and Workforce have begun investigating what links there may be between the school and the CCP.
Harvard, in the latest lawsuit it has brought against the Trump administration, is claiming the ending of its certification is a “blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act.”
A federal judge in Harvard’s back yard immediately came to the school’s aid, temporarily blocking the administration decision to cancel the program for foreign students.
The order came from Allison Burroughs, a judge in Boston.
The administration move left the campus in disarray only days before graduation this year, the school claimed, as foreign students now are deciding whether to transfer or risk staying, and possibly losing legal status to remain in the U.S.
A report from the Washington Examiner said Alan Garber, the school chief, claimed the withdrawal of the privilege of enrolling foreign students, “imperils the futures of thousands of students and scholars across Harvard and serves as a warning to countless others at colleges and universities throughout the country who have come to America to pursue their education and fulfill their dreams.”
The end of that certification, in fact, would mean many students at Harvard would have to transfer to another school. Estimates are that about one fourth of the student population there is foreign.
Harvard’s filing claimed, “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 school also has lost an estimated $2.7 billion in government grants because of its agenda, following decisions byi federal officials with end those payments.
The foreign students are a lucrative source of cash for the school, which already has a $53 billion endowment.
The report said, “Most international students at Harvard pay full tuition, which is $59,320 for the 2024-25 academic year. Room and Board on campus and other mandatory fees amount to an additional $27,606 per student. The total for an international student to attend Harvard is $86,926 per year.”
WorldNetDaily reported when the decision to withdraw Harvard’s permission to enroll foreigners was announced.
The Department of Homeland Security said Harvard has created “an unsafe campus environment” by allowing “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” to assault Jewish students on campus.
Homeland Security reports have confirmed how Jewish students report discrimination and bias on campus.
A Breitbart report elaborated on the new moves, explaining DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said, “This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus.
“It is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. Harvard had plenty of opportunity to do the right thing. It refused. They have lost their Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of their failure to adhere to the law. Let this serve as a warning to all universities and academic institutions across the country.”
Harvard ought to be ashamed of itself for preferring our enemies’ offspring to our own and educating our enemies in how to attack the United States and using taxpayer money todo so. Evil.
Leftists are never ashamed of what they do.
They justify it and then respond in self-righteous indignation when confronted about their abominable lack of scruples.
The federal government should give Harvard NOTHING. The federal government should not be in the business of giving any of MY taxpayer money to ANY colleges or universities. Cut them all off.
First amendment says nothing about funding actions the recipient decides to call "speech". Leftists love to find things in the "penumbra" when it suits their purpose.
Does not each one of these students have to receive a visa? So be a lot more thorough on the background checks and the numbers coming in will go way down.
The U.S. taxpayers should not be giving Harvard as much as a dime. They hate the U.S. Let them use their giant endowment to pay for foreign students and engage in Woke, anti-American activities.
Universities, courts and religious marriage fronts are terrorist sanctuarizing institutions . It s been more and more obviius it has gone on for a while. Every time a terror group fails, they regroup that way. In the US and in Africa in particular. Europe/London is a cesspool of course.
The left is sponsoring a D-Day style invasion of our country.
The illegal aliens comprise a mercenary infantry.
Stop sending our taxpayer money to communist/ nazi colleges. They shouldn’t be allowed to go business either the government, either. And they shouldn’t be accredited any longer. Pull their tax exemption — why in hell are we bringing forced to subsidize a hotbed of sedition and anti- Americanism right here in our midst?
To HELL with Harvard (and several similar moral and ethical cesspools parading as institutions of higher learning)!
Under the program the government outsourced the vetting to the universities that participate. At the end of the day, Harvard will be kicked out of the program.
Yes!!!!
So those foreign students don’t pay tuition?
Harvard is producing the first muzzie terrorist ivy leaguers. Nice.
BTTT
“Harvard has $52,000,000...”
Trump said fifty-two billion, that is spelled $52,000,000,000.
Sociopaths are never “ashamed”.
Leftists are never ashamed.
In their minds, it is an affront to question anything they do for themselves, especially against us.
I am so sick of these people perverting the first amendment to cover clear anti American actions. Harvard obviously can’t be trusted with foreign students. Whatever the court decides regarding their certification the courts can’t force the government to approve visas for those students.
I’ve been bashing the Ivy League for decades.
I just connected the dots.
Although I got more against Yale than Harvard.
Yale has been the place where Deep Staters have been groomed and recruited.
Show me a Skull and Boner and I’ll show you a Deep State stooge.
McGeorge Bundy and the Bushes named George top that list.
Even a Bubba from Arkansas may not have made the Secret Society but he hooked up with those that did at places like Mena.
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