Judge blocks Trump’s attempt to stop international students from leaving Harvard

A federal judge on Friday challenged another Ivy League school victory by blocking the Trump administration’s efforts to block Harvard’s international students, challenging multiple government sanctions in the fight against the White House.

The order of U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs retains Harvard’s ability to host foreign students in case decisions.

Harvard sued the Department of Homeland Security in May, which the agency withdrew its school’s certification to host foreign students and issue paperwork for their visas. The action would force approximately 7,000 foreign students at Harvard University (about a quarter of enrollment) to illegally transfer or take risks. New foreign students will be banned from coming to Harvard.

The university said it rejected the White House’s illegal retaliation for the overhaul policy requests for campus protests, enrollment, recruitment and other issues. A few hours after Harvard’s prosecution, Burrows temporarily stopped his action.

Less than two weeks later, in early June, President Donald Trump tried a new strategy. He made a declaration to prevent foreign students from entering the United States to attend Harvard University, citing another legal defense. Harvard University challenged the move, saying the president is in the final run of the interim court order. Burroughs also temporarily blocked Trump’s declaration.

The emergency barrier remains in effect, and Burroughs did not address the declaration in her order Friday.

“We hope judges make longer-lasting decisions in the coming days,” Harvard said in an email to international students Friday. “If student visa eligibility is changed or their ability to enroll at Harvard, our school will continue to develop contingency plans to ensure that our international students and academics can do their academic work as much as possible.”

Students are in trouble

The stay and start of the legal struggle has upset current students and left other students around the world waiting for them to attend the oldest and wealthiest colleges in the United States.

The university said in court documents that the Trump administration created an environment of “deep fear, concern and confusion” to prevent Harvard’s admission. Maureen Martin, director of immigration services at Harvard, said many international students have asked about transferring from college.

Trump has been fighting Harvard after he rejected a series of government demands aimed at addressing the school’s overly liberal and tolerating anti-Semitic harassment. Trump officials cut more than $2.6 billion in the U.S. on research grants, ended federal contracts and threatened to revoke its tax-exempt status.

In April, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem asked Harvard to read a series of records related to any dangerous or illegal activities of foreign students. Harvard said it was eligible, but Norm said the response was insufficient, and on May 22, she revoked Harvard’s certification in the Student and Exchange Visitor Program.

The school said in the lawsuit that the sanction immediately competed for the world’s top students because it competed for the world’s top students and damaged Harvard’s reputation as a global research center.

“Harvard is not Harvard University without international students,” the lawsuit said.

The action will allow some graduate deans to recruit a large number of graduate students from abroad. Some overseas schools quickly offered invitations to Harvard students, including two universities in Hong Kong.

Harvard President Alan Garber has previously said the university has changed anti-Semitism. But Harvard will not deviate from its “core, legal protection principle” after receiving the federal final atums, he said.