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A federal judge blocked on Friday the efforts of the Trump administration to prevent Harvard University from organizing international students, delivering another victory to the Ivy League school, since it challenges multiple government sanctions in the midst of a battle with the White House.
The order of the American district judge Allison Burroughs in Boston retains Harvard’s ability to organize foreign students while the case is decided.
Harvard sued the National Security Department in May after the agency withdrew school certification to organize foreign students and issue documents for their visas. The action would have forced the approximately 7,000 foreign students from Harvard, approximately a quarter of their total registration, to transfer or risk being illegally in the United States. New foreign students would have been forbidden to come to Harvard.
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The University described it with illegal retaliation for rejecting the White House demands to review Harvard policies around campus protests, admissions, hiring and other issues. Burroughs temporarily stopped the action hours after Harvard demanded.
Less than two weeks later, at the beginning of June, President Donald Trump tested a new strategy. He issued a proclamation to prevent foreign students from entering the US to attend Harvard, citing a different legal justification. Harvard questioned the measure, saying that the president was trying an end of the temporary court order. Burroughs also blocked Trump’s proclamation.
This emergency block remains in force, and Burroughs did not approach the proclamation in its order on Friday.
“We hope that the judge will issue a more lasting decision in the next few days,” Harvard said Friday in an email to international students. “Our schools will continue to make contingency plans to ensure that our international students and academics can carry out their academic work as much as possible, if there is a change in the eligibility of the students’ visa or their ability to register in Harvard.”
Students at Limbo
The stops and the beginnings of the legal battle have unstable current students and left others worldwide waiting to find out if they can attend the oldest and rich university in the United States.
The efforts of the Trump administration to prevent Harvard from registering international students has created an environment of “deep fear, concern and confusion,” said the university in a judicial presentation. Many international students have asked about the transfer of the University, said Harvard Immigration Services, Maureen Martin.
Trump has been at war with Harvard for months after he rejected a series of government demands aimed at addressing the conservative complaints that the school has become too liberal and has tolerated the harassment of anti -Jew. Trump officials have reduced more than $ 2.6 billion in investigation grants, finished federal contracts and threatened to revoke their tax -free status.
In April, the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, demanded that Harvard deliver a treasure of records related to any dangerous or illegal activity by foreign students. Harvard says he complied, but Noem said the answer fell short and on May 22, he revoked Harvard certification in the student and exchange visitors program.
The sanction immediately put Harvard at a disadvantage, since he competed for the best students in the world, the school said in his demand, and harmed Harvard’s reputation as a global research center.
“Without his international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” said the demand.
The action would have overturned some postgraduate schools that strongly recruit abroad. Some schools abroad quickly offered invitations to Harvard students, including two universities in Hong Kong.
Harvard president Alan Garber said previously that the university has made changes to combat anti -Semitism. But Harvard, he said, will not deviate from his “central and legally protected principles”, even after receiving federal ultimatums.
