President Trump on Wednesday suggested a 15 percent cap be imposed on the percentage of foreign students that Harvard University and other U.S. higher education institutions can admit.
The president, while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, suggested that foreign students take up too much of the student body and raised issues over some of the foreign students he called "troublemakers."
“These countries aren’t helping us. They’re not investing in Harvard and all of our, we are. So why would 31 percent—why would a number so big,” he said. “I think they should have a cap of maybe around 15 percent, not 31 percent.”
“We have people, want to go to Harvard and other schools, they can’t get in because we have foreign students there. But I want to make sure that the foreign students are people that can love our country. We don't want to see shopping centers exploding. We don’t want to see the kind of riots that you had," Trump said. “And I’ll tell you what, many of those students didn’t go anywhere. Many of those students were troublemakers caused by the radical left lunatics in this country.”
He also said he doesn’t want “radical people” coming to U.S. as students and “making trouble in our country” without elaborating.
The remarks come as Trump expressed renewed frustrations with the institution on Sunday arguing that foreign students were taking up spots that U.S.-born students couldn't fill. Trump also suggested the university hand over a list of all it's foreign-born students.
In the Oval Office on Wednesday, Trump reiterated that notion.
“I don’t have a problem with foreign students. But it shouldn’t be 31 percent. It’s too much, because we have Americans who want to go there, and to other places, and they can’t go there because there’s 31 percent foreigners,” Trump said.
The number of foreign students at Harvard stands at 27 percent of its total enrollment. Additionally, foreign students at U.S. universities like Harvard tend to pay full tuition, providing an economic boost to the U.S. and effectively subsidizing costs for U.S. students.
Harvard on Friday sued the Trump administration after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revoked its certification to admit foreign students days prior. Trump has also threated to cut off Harvard’s federal grants over its efforts to end all diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs and pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations last year.
DHS has targeted foreign students who have been involved in campus protests or even merely written letters to the editor in support of the people of Gaza, moving to deport them.
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