Cambridge: An American court has stopped President Donald Trump’s attempt to prevent Harvard University from accepting international students.
The judge said foreign students should be protected while the legal battle continues. This comes as Trump continues to push top universities over what he calls political bias.
Thousands of Harvard students in Crimson-trimmed dresses celebrated their graduation Thursday.
Trump has made Harvard the central goal of his campaign against elite US universities, which he has also threatened to finance freezers over what he claims is liberal bias and anti -Semitism.
Judge Allison Burroughs said she would later issue a preliminary injunction that “provides some protection” to international students, while the two sides claim about the legality of Trump’s attitude.
“Our students are scared and we already get people to transfer to other universities,” said Harvard’s lawyer Ian Gershengorn during the Boston hearing.
In an eleventh hour filing before the consultation, the Trump Administration issued a formal notice of intention to draw Harvard’s ability to sign up for foreign student-release the official process.
The archiving gave Harvard 30 days to provide evidence explaining why it should not be blocked to host and enroll international students – which currently represents 27 percent of Harvard’s students.
Burroughs had already temporarily stopped the policy and expanded that break on Thursday pending the new injunction. She said she would investigate whether Trump officials had traded with “a retaliation motive.”
A lawyer professor in the packed courtroom said the Trump administration extended students’ suffering.
“Harvard is in this shade. What should an international student do?” said Harvard Law School candidate who refused to be named.
‘Pride and approval’
There remained “this ghost of other actions” that the government could still take to block Harvard from hosting international students, the judge added.
The Ivy League institution has constantly drawn Trump’s IRE while publicly rejecting his administration’s repeated demand to surrender control over recruitment, curricula and research priorities.
“Harvard treats our country with great disrespect and all they do is get deeper and deeper,” Trump said Wednesday.
Harvard President Alan Garber received a huge cheer when he recognized international students who participated in the exam with their families, and called it “as it should be.” He did not mention the Trump -Tvisten directly.
Garber received a standing ovation that a student told AFP was “revealing to the pride and approval of society.”
He has led the legal opposition within the United States Academy after Trump targeted several prestigious universities – including Columbia, which made celebrations to the administration in an attempt to recover $ 400 million in withdrawn federal grants.
Garber has acknowledged that Harvard faces challenges with anti -Semitism and promoting a climate where a diversity of views can be expressed freely.
Educated students Uzma Farheen from India, who served a master of public health, said the day was one of “love for the global community.”
“We are united to powerfully represent what Harvard stands for – truth, integrity and inclusion,” she told AFP.
Before the ceremony – where the scene and screen legend Rita Moreno received an honorary degree – marched members of the Harvard Band in Crimson Blazers through the narrow streets of Cambridge.
Hundreds of students gathered in front of a big scene to hear speeches – including a hero in Latin – within a grassy area closed to the public for security reasons.
Many students from Harvard Kennedy School of Government transported inflatable plastic blocks during the ceremony to symbolize the school’s international character.
“For the past two months it has been very difficult. I have felt extremely vulnerable,” said Lorena Mejia (36), a Colombian candidate who served a master of public administration and proudly carried robberies to identify her nationality.
