- Harvard’s grant of 3.2 billion Dollars, contracts cut by Trump Administration.
- Int’l students account for 27% of the total registration at Varsity.
- Judge quotes “irreversible damage” behind a decision against the US government.
New York: An American court has set a temporary stay at Donald Trump’s recent efforts to prevent foreign students from signing up for Harvard when the US president’s fight with one of the world’s most prestigious universities was intensified.
A proclamation issued by the White House late Wednesday tried to prevent most new international students from Harvard from entering the country and said that existing foreign enrollments risked having their visas completed.
“Harvard’s behavior has made it a unsuitable destination for foreign students and researchers,” the order said.
Harvard quickly changed an existing complaint filed by the federal court and said, “This is not the administration’s first attempt to interrupt Harvard from his international students.”
“[It] is part of a coordinated and escalating campaign in return of the government with clear receding of Harvard’s exercise of its first amendments to reject the government’s demand to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum and ‘ideology’ of its faculty and students. “
US district judge Allison Burroughs gave on Thursday that the government cannot enforce Trump’s proclamation.
Harvard had shown, she said that without a temporary restriction order, it risked maintaining “immediate and irreparable damage before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”
The same judge had already blocked Trump’s past efforts to prevent international students from signing up for the big university.
‘Vendetta’
The government has already cut around $ 3.2 billion of federal grants and contracts that benefit Harvard and promised to exclude Cambridge, Massachusetts, institution from any future federal funding.
Harvard has been at the forefront of Trump’s campaign against top universities after it defied his calls to submit to the supervision of its curriculum, staff, recruitment of student and “viewing diversity.”
Trump has also appointed international students at Harvard, who accounted for 27% of the total registration in the study year 2024-2025 and is an important source of income.
In his filing, Harvard acknowledged that Trump had authority to prevent an entire class of foreigners if it was considered to be in the public interest, but emphasized that this was not the case in this action.
“The president’s actions are thus not carried out to protect” the interests of the United States, “but instead of pursuing a government’s Vendetta against Harvard,” it said.
Since returning to the office, Trump has targeted elite American universities, which he and his allies accuse of being the fireplace of anti -Semitism, liberal bias and “woke up” ideology.
Trump’s Education Secretary also threatened Wednesday to strip Columbia University of its accreditation.
The Republican has targeted the New York Ivy League institution for allegedly ignoring harassment against Jewish students and thrown all his federal funding into doubt.
Unlike Harvard, several top institutions-Inclusive Columbia-Aaller has bent out of far-reaching demands from the Trump administration.
