A federal judge temporarily blocked President Donald Trump efforts to block visas for foreign students Planning to attend Harvard, after Ivy League College filed a legal challenge.
The judge of the American district court Allison D. Burroughs granted a temporary ban order which enjoins anyone to “implement, institute, maintain, apply or give a force or effect to the presidential proclamation” that Trump issued on Wednesday.
Harvard had published his complaint against the Trump administration on Thursday to challenge Trump’s proclamation that the president had published the day before.
He would have Visas refused to foreign students who planned to enter the United States to study at Harvard, in his last attack on the eminent university.
Harvard president Alan Mr. Garber said that Trump and his administration retaliated against Harvard because he refused requests from the administration, which included audit views of the student body.
“Signing our establishment for its registration for international students and its collaboration with other educational establishments around the world is another illegal step taken by the administration to retaliate against Harvard”, said in a letter to the campus community.
The proclamation of Trump Wednesday targeting Harvard followed an attempt from the Ministry of Internal Security at the end of last month to limit Harvard’s ability to register foreign students by revoking his certification in the program of students and exchanges, which was temporarily blocked by Burroughs.
Burroughs Thursday also extended the prohibition order until June 20, or until a preliminary injunction can be ordered.
By granting the prohibition order blocking the implementation of the proclamation of Trump and the effort of the DHS, Burroughs wrote that it was acting “to preserve the status quo pending a hearing”.
Trump’s proclamation would not only affect incoming students. He indicates that the State Department will examine existing foreign students at Harvard under the F, M or J visa to determine whether their visas must be revoked.
Harvard said in his modified complaint that Wednesday’s proclamation, as well as the previous attempt at the Ministry of Internal Security to revoke his ability to register foreign students, violates his rights to the first amendment.
“Everyone is part of a concerted and growing reprisal campaign by the government in clear compensation for the exercise of their Harvard first amendment rights to reject the government’s requests to control Harvard’s governance, the study program and the ideology” of its teachers and students “, indicates the modified complaint.
“Government’s actions also have no law bases,” he said.
Harvard’s modified complaint argues that the proclamation law of Trump of Immigration allows the president to prohibit “a class of foreigners whose entry would be prejudicial to the interests of the United States ” – and that Trump’s proclamation does not suspend entry for a course, just people who want to attend Harvard.
“The president’s actions are therefore not undertaken to protect the” interests of the United States “, but rather to continue a government vendetta against Harvard,” he said.
Trump and his administration targeted Harvard and said that he had not done enough to combat anti-Semitism on campus during demonstrations against the War of Israel-Hamas.
Harvard in April rejected requests from the Trump administration, which included audit points of view of the student body. In response, the federal government said he was frozen more than $ 2 billion in federal subsidies.
Garber wrote in Thursday’s letter that Harvard will defend his international students.
The university has declared in the modified complaint that attempts to target international students harm all its students, because Harvard “prepares them to contribute and to lead in our global society”.
“International students and academics make exceptional contributions inside and outside our classrooms and laboratories, fulfilling our mission of excellence in the innumerable ways,” wrote Garber. “We will celebrate them, support them and defend their interests while we continue to assert our constitutional rights.”
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