A federal judge blocked the administration of President Donald Trump on Monday to implement his plan to prohibit foreigners entering the United States to study at Harvard University.
The American district judge Allison Burroughs in Boston issued a court order that prohibits Trump’s administration from carrying out her last attempt to reduce Harvard’s ability to organize international students in the middle of an intensive fight that faces the Republican President against the prestigious Ivy League school.
The preliminary judicial order extends a temporary order that the judge issued on June 5 that prevented the administration from enforcing a proclamation that Trump signed a day before he cited national security concerns to justify why Harvard could no longer be trusted in international students.
The proclamation prohibited foreigners from entering the US to study in Harvard or participating in change visitors for an initial period of six months, and ordered Secretary of State Frame to consider whether to revoke visas from international students already enrolled in Harvard.
Burroughs wrote that “at its root, this case these are central constitutional rights that must be safeguarded: freedom of thought, freedom of expression and freedom of expression, each of which is a pillar of a functional democracy and an essential coverage against authoritarianism.”
“Here, the efforts outside the government to control an accredited academic institution and crush various points of view because, in some cases, they oppose the opinions of this administration, threaten these rights,” he wrote.
“To worsen things, the government tries to achieve this, at least in part, behind international students, with little thought in the consequences for them or, ultimately, to our own citizens.”
Almost 6,800 international students attended Harvard in their most recent school year, representing about 27% of the student population of the prestigious Cambridge school, based in Massachusetts.
Trump signed the proclamation after his administration had already frozen billions of dollars in funds for the oldest and most rich American university, threatened Harvard’s tax and launched several investigations to school.
Trump said Friday that his administration could announce an agreement with Harvard “during the next week more or less” to resolve the White House campaign against the University, which has fought a legal battle against the action of the administration.
Harvard alleges that Trump is taking reprisals against him in violation of his rights of freedom of expression under the first amendment of the United States Constitution for refusing to access the demands of the administration to control governance, the curriculum and the ideology of his faculty and students.
The university has filed two separate demands before donkey seeking to defrost around $ 2.5 billion in funds and prevent administration from blocking the capacity of international students to attend university.
The last lawsuit was filed after the Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, on May 22 announced that his department was immediately revoking the certification of the Harvard Student and Exchanges visitors program, which allows him to register foreign students.
Noem, without providing evidence, accused the University of “promoting violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party.”
Its action was temporarily blocked by Burroughs almost immediately. Although the Department of National Security has changed to challenge Harvard certification through an administrative process of months, Burroughs at a hearing on May 29 said he planned to issue a court order to maintain the status quo, which officially made on Friday.
A week after the audience, Trump signed his proclamation, which cited concerns about the acceptance of Harvard of foreign money, even from China and what he said, was an inappropriate response from the school to the demand for his administration of information on foreign students.
His administration has accused Harvard of creating an insecure environment for Jewish students and allowing anti -Semitism to feastion on their campus. Protests on the treatment of the ally of the United States Israel to the Palestinians during their war in Gaza have traveled numerous universities campus, including Harvard.
Rights’ defenders have observed the growing anti -Semitism and Islamophobia in the United States due to war. The Trump administration has so far announced any action on anti-Arab and anti-musulm hate. Harvard’s own anti -Semitism and Islamophobia’s work forces found generalized fear and intolerance at the university in reports published at the end of April.
