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SAN FRANCISCO, May 26 (Xinhua) — U.S. President Donald Trump said Sunday that he wants to know the “names and countries” of the international students studying at Harvard University.
The request comes just days after a federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from stripping Harvard University of its right to accept international students.
“We want to know who these students are, which is a natural question since we fund Harvard with billions of dollars and Harvard is not very forthcoming,” he wrote on Thruth Social. “We want to know names and countries.”
“Why doesn’t Harvard tell us that 31% of their students are foreigners, some of whom are not exactly friendly to the United States. And yet they don’t pay anything, and they don’t plan to,” Trump wrote on Sunday. “Nobody tells us this.”
On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security ordered the school to terminate its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEP) certification, effectively barring it from accepting foreign students. All international students must transfer from Harvard to other schools or lose their legal status in the United States.
The university promptly filed a federal lawsuit against the administration. A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered a stay of the administration’s decision.
Harvard data shows that international students made up more than 27 percent of the total student body as of the fall 2023 semester. The university currently has about 6,800 international students from more than 140 countries and regions.
International student education is a significant source of revenue for U.S. universities. –0–