- Grant of $ 3.2 billion Harvard, contracts cut by the Trump administration.
- Int’l students represent 27% of the total registration in the university team.
- The judge cites “irreparable injuries” behind the decision against the United States government.
New York: An American court has put a temporary stay in Donald Trump’s last effort to prevent foreign students from registering in Harvard, as the battle of the president of the United States intensified with one of the most prestigious universities in the world.
A proclamation issued by the White House on Wednesday night sought to ban most new international students in Harvard to enter the country and said that existing foreign affiliates risked their visas to end.
“Harvard’s behavior has made him an inappropriate destination for foreign students and researchers,” the order said.
Harvard quickly modified an existing complaint filed in a federal court, saying: “This is not the first attempt of the administration to separate Harvard from its international students.”
“[It] It is part of a concerted and growing campaign of reprisals by the Government in a clear remuneration for Harvard exercise its rights of the first amendment to reject government demands to control governance, the curriculum and the ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students. “
The American district judge Allison Burroughs ruled on Thursday that the government cannot enforce Trump’s proclamation.
Harvard had demonstrated, he said, that without a temporary restriction order, he risked “immediate and irreparable injuries before there is the opportunity to listen to all parties.”
The same judge had already blocked Trump’s previous effort to prohibit international students from registering in history.
‘Vendetta’
The government has already reduced around $ 3.2 billion of federal subsidies and contracts that benefit Harvard and promised to exclude the Cambridge institution, Massachusetts, from any future federal financing.
Harvard has been at the forefront of Trump’s campaign against the best universities after challenging his calls to undergo the supervision of his curriculum, personnel, recruitment of students and “diversity of points of view.”
Trump has also highlighted international students in Harvard, who represented 27% of the total registration in the 2024-2025 academic year and are an important source of income.
In his presentation, Harvard acknowledged that Trump had the authority to prohibit a complete class of aliens if he was considered to be of public interest, but emphasized that this was not the case in this action.
“Therefore, the president’s actions are not carried out to protect the ‘interests of the United States’, but to pursue a government revenge against Harvard,” he said.
Since he returned to office, Trump has attacked the American elite universities that he and his allies accuse of being Hotacas of anti -Semitism, liberal bias and “awakened” ideology.
The Secretary of Education of Trump also threatened Wednesday to strip Columbia University of his accreditation.
The Republican has attacked the Institution of the New York Ivy League to allegedly ignore the harassment of Jewish students, throwing all their federal funds in doubt.
Unlike Harvard, several main institutions, including Columbia, have already leaned towards the great scope of the Trump administration.
