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title: Trump says Harvard should have maybe a 15% cap on foreign students
description: President Trump called for a 15% cap on foreign students at Harvard and demanded the university share its current international student list.
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# Trump says Harvard should have maybe a 15% cap on foreign students

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WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Harvard University should have a 15% cap on the number of foreign students it admits and that the Ivy League school needs to show the administration their current list of students from other countries.

"Harvard has got to behave themselves. Harvard is treating our country with great disrespect and all they're doing is getting in deeper and deeper" Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office.

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