The president of the United States, Donald Trump, defended his administration on Sunday, May 25, on Sunday, May 25, to prevent foreign students from registering in Harvard, a measure qualified as illegal by the prestigious university and suspended by a judge.
“Why does Harvard not say that almost 31% of his students come from foreign countries, and yet these countries, some friendly steps with the United States, do not pay anything for the education of their students, nor do they intend to,” Donald Trump published on their social social platform.
“We want to know who these foreign students are, a reasonable demand since we give Harvard billions of dollars, but Harvard is not really transparent,” he added, calling the university to “stop asking” money to the federal government.
On Thursday, the Secretary of Internal Security, Kristi Noem, announced the withdrawal of Harvard’s law to welcome foreign students. But a judge quickly suspended the measure against which the University filed a complaint on Friday morning at the Federal Court of Massachusetts.
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The Trump administration criticizes Harvard for rejecting Washington’s supervision about admissions and the recruitment process, and accuses the University of being a bastion of semitism, of promoting ideas of the left too progressive and having links with the Chinese Communist Party.
The United States government had already eliminated more than two billion dollars in university grants, which has stopped certain research programs.
According to its website, Harvard, classified among the best universities in the world and that produced 162 Nobel Awards, this year hosts about 6,700 “international students”, or 27% of the total. Students to whom tens of thousands of dollars a year in registration rates. Harvard is the richest university in the United States with an estimated endowment fund for $ 53.2 billion in 2024.
Source: BFM TV
