Leo Terrell Serves Up Brutal Reminder For Harvard President About Student Visas

Civil rights attorney Leo Terrell told Fox News host Harris Faulkner on “The Faulker Focus” Tuesday that the Trump administration wasn’t backing down in its efforts to hold universities accountable for failing to prevent antisemitic activities.

The Department of Homeland Security terminated Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification Thursday, citing the Ivy League school’s failure to address antisemitism and its failure to provide accurate data on funds from foreign sources. After Faulkner played a clip of Harvard’s president declaring his intention to be “firm” in defense of the university, she asked if he imagined antisemitism would be an issue.

“How did we get here?” Faulkner asked Terrell, who serves as senior counsel to Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights Harmeet K. Dhillon. “Did you ever think this would be a principal part of your job in 2025?”

“Not in my lifetime. How did we get here? Because we have tolerated, we have tolerated antisemitism the last four years,” Terrell said. “And basically the Trump Administration — thank goodness President Trump is in office, he’s not going to tolerate it. He’s going to eliminate it.”

WATCH:

📺 Embedded media — coming soon

Since the Oct. 7, 2023 attack by the radical Islamic terrorist group Hamas that killed over 1,200 people in Israel, pro-Hamas protesters have occupied