Donald Trump wants to know who exactly Harvard’s international students are—and why the countries they hail from aren’t paying up.

Trump claimed the Ivy League university has not been forthcoming about how much of its student body international students make up in an early-morning screed on Sunday.

“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 [sic] education, nor do they ever intend to,“ Trump wrote.

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    Totally normal presidential behavior.

    Totally demonstrative of a president upholding and protecting the constitution, and the First Amendment in particular.

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    …yet those countries, some not at all friendly to the United States, pay NOTHING toward their student’s [sic] education, nor do they ever intend to…

    I think you just answered your own question numbnuts… We take them in because it means highly educated people for the US and less for our enemies.

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    pay NOTHING toward their student’s [sic] education, nor do they ever intend to,“ Trump wrote.

    ???

    Universities with high (undergrad) international student populations usually do so because they charge international students higher tuition than local students.

    As for grad students, that’s a way to import high-skill workers and also grad students typically are highly underpaid for the kind of work they do while working towards their degree.