The judge blocks the Trump proclamation prohibiting international students from entering us on Harvard visas | News

Updated on June 5, 2025 at 10:34 p.m.

A federal judge granted Harvard’s request for a temporary prohibition order for hours after the university asked him to block the Trump administration on Wednesday Wednesday Proclamation International students to enter the United States on visas sponsored by Harvard.

The prescription was made four hours after Harvard deposit A modified complaint Accusing the Trump administration to retaliate against university by preventing incoming international students from entering the United States to attend Harvard.

American district judge Allison D. Burroughs also announced that the court would prolong the tro First granted in Harvard on May 23 – a day after DHS revoked Harvard’s eligibility to welcome international students – until June 20, the date requested by the University. Burroughs had already agreed to extend the Tro once before, after a hearing of May 29.

Thursday’s TRO will restore international students’ ability to enter the country to attend Harvard until a hearing of June 16 scheduled for Burroughs – but the university will have to file a preliminary injunction to extend its ability to welcome international students until the court determines its legality before the courts.

In the modified complaint, Harvard wrote that Trump’s proclamation was “a transparent attempt to bypass the temporary prohibition order that this court has already concluded against the summary revocation of Harvard SEVP certification”.

He argued that – without urgent action – The proclamation would have dramatic costs for admitted students trying to enter the United States and submit to current students to fear that they are arbitrarily expelled.

Burroughs, in an order published well after working hours Thursday evening, said that Harvard had made a “sufficient demonstration” that he would suffer “an immediate and irreparable evil” unless a Tro is granted.

But the Tro – and a future preliminary injunction, if Harvard seeks one and the rules of burrochs – are only provisional protections.

The order of Wednesday was the last in an increasing confrontation between Harvard and the Trump administration, which launched a wave of university surveys and has moved several times to tighten the limits of entry for its international students. Harvard is entangled in two proceedings against the White House – one on the financing discounts of several billion dollars of the Trump administration and the other on the status of its international students.

Burroughs, a named Barack Obama, is a familiar face for Harvard in the courtroom. She previously chaired several highly publicized cases involving the university, including a trial in 2021 brought back by Harvard and MIT defying an immigration and customs’ application policy that would have forced international students to take online courses to leave the United States

She also supervises Harvard’s first trial Against the Trump administration, which questions the legality of the reductions of several billion dollars of federal funding which were taken from university.

Two weeks ago, she quickly tried to install the first Tro against the revocation by the Ministry of Internal Security of Certification of the Harvard Student and Visitors. She extended it last week but has stopped granting a preliminary injunction Until Harvard and the federal government agree on the conditions of the injunction.

Several legal experts said to crimson That, although it is likely that the University would be granted a temporary compensation before the lower courts, Harvard would face a difficult battle if the complaint went to the Supreme Court of the Conservative Majority, which confirmed an extensive interpretation of the presidential authority on immigration and restrictions on a 2018 decision.

Harvard will have to prove that Wednesday proclamation was a violation of federal law or its constitutional rights and affirms that action was not justified on the basis of national security.

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