President Donald Trump has accused Harvard of being “very late” to take over information about international students.
“We're still waiting for a list of foreign students from Harvard, so after billions of dollars of ridiculous spending, we can now determine how many radical madmen, troublemakers, should not return to our country,” Trump wrote on True Social Monday.
“Harvard is very slow to present these documents, and perhaps for good reason!” Trump wrote. “The best thing Harvard is doing is that they shop and found the absolute best judge (for them!) – but the government ultimately wins!”
Judge temporarily suspends Trump's move and cancels Harvard's student visa policy after lawsuit
President Donald Trump arrives at the House Republican Conference held at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, DC on May 20, 2025 (Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)
In another post, Trump added Monday, “We are thinking about stealing a $3 billion grant from the highly anti-Semite Harvard and giving it to our whole land trade school.”
“What a great investment for America and it was a terrible need!!” he wrote.
Fox News Digital reached out to Harvard for comment.
Judge Alison D. Burrows, appointed by former President Barack Obama, gave Harvard University a temporary restraining order Friday, preventing the government from revoking Ivy League school recognition in its student and exchange visitor program. The program allows universities to study in the US international students with an F-1 or J-1 visa
In a letter Thursday, Homeland Security Department Christa Noem told Harvard leaders that it refused to comply with multiple requests from institutions to “provide appropriate information to the Department of Homeland Security,” and refused to provide appropriate information to encourage perpetuating a precarious campus environment and promoting sympathy, etc. policy. ”
“This action should not surprise you, it is the unfortunate outcome of Harvard's failure to follow simple reporting requirements,” Noem writes.
Anti-Israel protesters will gather outside Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts on April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP via Getty Images)
Noem said on April 16 it requested records of “non-immigrant students” registered with Harvard University, including information about fraud and other crimes and other crimes.
Harvard's lawyers responded twice, but the letter said both answers were inadequate.
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“The outcome must follow to send a clear signal to all universities that want to enforce the law and enjoy the privilege of Harvard and foreign students to register, which will exterminate the evils of anti-American and anti-Semitism in society and campus,” Noem writes.
The requested records include all audio or video footage owned by Harvard regarding threats to other students and university staff, “disenfranchising” of other classmates or university staff, and “dangerous or violent activities” by non-immigrant students registered with Harvard over the past five years. Noem also seeks disciplinary records and audio or video footage of all protests involving non-immigrant students.
On May 22, 2025, a pedestrian took a walk through an umbrella at Harvard Yard in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Danielle Parhizkaran/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
The letter gave Harvard another 72 hours to comply with and send the information requested to regain recognition, but instead, Harvard filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts early Friday.
Harvard University, in court filings, said the lapse had affected more than 7,000 visa holders (more than a quarter of student organizations), and was “a blatant violation of the First Amendment, due process provisions and the Administrative Procedure Act.”
“It's the latest act by the government in explicit retaliation against Harvard to exercise its initial amendment rights to reject Harvard's request to control Harvard's governance, curriculum and its faculty and students' 'ideology',” the lawsuit states.
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Burrows set up another hearing on the matter in Boston federal court at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday.
