Judge temporarily blocks the Trump plan to stop Harvard’s foreign students star-news.press/wp

The judge issued a temporary restraining order that blocks the Trump Administration plan to remove Harvard University to its ability to enter into foreign students.
The decision came after Harvard filed a lawsuit – the latest escalation of the dispute between the White House and one of the most prestigious institutions in America.
The University said that the decision of the administration was “mellow violations” of rights and free speech rights on Thursday.
Trump Administration says Harvard did not do enough to fight anti-Semitism and change their employment and admission practices – state that the university was strongly rejected.
The U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order in a short judgment issued on Friday.
The order stops a move that the Ministry of Homeland Insurance has made a database in Harvard in the student and exchange of visitors – government database that manages foreign students.
There are about 6,800 international students at Harvard who make up more than 27% of their enrollment this year.
“With a pencil stroke, the government sought to delete the quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who significantly contribute to the University and its mission,” Harvard claimed the lawsuit.
“We condemn this illegal and unjustified action,” said Harvard President Alan Garber in the letter.
“The recall continues a number of government actions for revenge against Harvard to surrender our academic independence and that the share of the Federal Government is illegally controlled over our curriculum,” he wrote.
In response, the Deputy Secretary for Press Release Bite Abigail Jackson said: “If only Harvard cared so much about the end of the Bike Anti-American, Anti-Semitic, a pro-terrorist mixer on their campus.
“Harvard should spend his time and resources on creating a secure campus environment, instead of submitting frivolous lawsuits,” Jackson said in the statement.
Harvard relies on money coming from international students who make up almost a third of their student body. Many of them pay full tuition, while domestic students can access help such as scholarships and loans.
For example, a year at the Harvard Faculty, for example, costs $ 80,760 (£ 60,758). With residential, food, insurance and other costs involved, students can expect to pay about $ 120,000 (90,192,929,929 €) for the year.
The Trump Administration is aimed at Harvard and other elite institutions, not only to argue that they should do more to establish a pro-Palestinian activists, but also claim to discriminate conservative attitudes.
She launched investigations into dozens of university across the country and was shook concessions from other major American institutions such as Columbia University in New York.
In April, the White House frozen $ 2.2 billion ($ 1.7 billion) in Harvard financing, and Trump threatened to remove the university’s tax status, a standard label for American educational institutions.
The Fund freezing encouraged an earlier lawsuit with Harvard, also by placing the courts to stop the administration actions.
Harvard, one of the eight elite Ivy League universities, is in front of Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Although Harvard leaders made concessions – including the rejection of the leaders of the Middle Eastern Studies, which came to the fire that they did not represent Israeli perspectives – the latest lawsuit points to the University of Court.
In his battle, the University published several high-propelled Republican lawyers, including the Adviser of the Trump Organization and Robert Hur, former special defenders who have investigated the retention of classified Joe Biden’s classified documents.
Foreign students are currently attending Harvard have expressed worries so that the order between their institution could force them to return home.
Chinese Student Kat Xie, who in his second year in the mask program, said the BBC that “in shock”.
“I almost forgot (a previously threatening ban), and then the announcement suddenly came on Thursday,” she said.
With reporting from Bernd Debusmann in the White House
2025-05-23 18:35:00
 
				


