As the Trump administration finds itself in yet another legal battle over its constitutional authority, Harvard Law Professor Emeritus Alan Dershowitz said the president needs to be “much more focused” when implementing his crackdown on foreign students.

On Thursday, the Department of Homeland Security blocked Harvard’s ability to enroll foreign students, in the latest salvo between the federal government and the esteemed institution. Dershowitz began his discussion on NewsNation’s “Cuomo” by putting the recent murder of Israeli embassy staff members Yaron Lischinsky, 30, and Sarah Lynn Milgrim, 26 on elite universities. “These two kids that were killed in Washington D.C. — Harvard and other universities have blood on their hands,” he said.

“Let’s be frank here, there are too many foreign students in American universities. At Harvard 27.5% of the student body is foreign, when I started teaching there it was probably 5%. So every spot that is taken by a foreign student is denying an American student.”

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