Harvard wins order blocking Trump’s international student ban

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Harvard University has won an order from the court that prevents Donald Trump’s temporary plan to prevent it from international students.

The American boycott judge, Alison Buroz, issued a ruling on Friday that prevents the government from moving forward in this step, which was distinguished by the escalation of the battle between the Elite and Management Foundation.

The judge said in its ruling: “The university has made it clear that” it will lead to an immediate injury and cannot be repaired “without a temporary restriction order. He puts the government’s move to wait until another session.

Its ruling came a few hours after submitting a legal complaint on the pretext that the Ministry of Internal Security’s attempt to ban the school from foreign students violate the rights of the constitutional and obligatory school. University President Alan Garper said in an open letter that a temporary restriction will follow.

“This is the latest work by the government in a clear revenge for Harvard that exercises the first amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curricula, and” ideology “faculty and students.

On Thursday, Internal Security Minister Christie Naim sent a message to Harvard to inform the school that the international students ’category received from enrollment will be banned and her current foreign students will need to register elsewhere. Harvard said it has about 7,000 current students who will be affected.

Nam was accused of Harvard University of creating an “hostile” environment for Jewish students-an attack directed by the administration against universities that was the scene of the protests supporting the Palestinians after Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023 on Israel and the subsequent attack of the country in Gaza.

Naim also claimed that the school failed to comply with its request to provide all records of illegal, dangerous or violent activity for foreign students, including students who are threatening or disciplinary procedures against them. In his message on Friday, Garber argued that the school complied with the law in the students’ requests that the department is looking for.

Tricia McLulin, Assistant Secretary of Public Affairs at the Ministry of National Security, said that Harvard’s lawsuit aims to undermine the president’s powers, and that the administration will remain steadfast in its efforts to ban international students from the school.

“It is a privilege, not really, for universities to register foreign students and benefit from their higher academic payments to help set their endowments of billions of dollars.”

“The Trump administration is committed to restoring the proper instinct of our student visa system; there is no lawsuit, another, or another, it will change that. We have the law, facts and proper sense on our part,” she added.

When correspondents at the Oval Office later asked on Friday about whether Trump was considering taking measures to prevent other universities from registering foreign students, the president told reporters: “We are looking at a lot of things.”

“We’ll actually do something in the near future and make it possible for people to come to this country and come, as you know, they have a path towards nationality, and I think it will be very exciting, but it is too early to speak.”

The procedure against Harvard has sparked wider criticism from universities and academic networks that represent international students, as well as some opportunistic responses. Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has launched an invitation to current and future international students at Harvard University to register with it instead.

International students have always been an important source of academic fees and other revenues for American universities, including Harvard University.

Harvard University graduates forum estimated that international students produced more than $ 300 million of university tuition fees annually. She said that the ban on foreign students threatens other revenues, including more than $ 170 million in fees resulting from the College of Business Administration.

A lawsuit against Harvard against the National Security Ministry is the second legal procedure against the Trump administration. A lawsuit against the administration was filed last month for its demands to impose government oversight, which the school said, its academic freedom was undermined. The administration has also frozen more than $ 2.2 billion of federal funding for the school.

Additional reports from Steve Chavez in Washington