Cambridge: An American court prevented President Donald Trump’s attempt from preventing Harvard University from accepting international students.
The judge said foreign students should be protected while legal struggle continues. This occurs while Trump continues to put pressure on the best universities on what he calls political prejudices.
Thousands of Harvard students in cranky dresses celebrated their diploma on Thursday.
Trump made Harvard the central target of his campaign against American elite universities, which he also threatened to freeze funding on what he claims to be a bias and a liberal anti -Semitism.
Judge Allison Burroughs said that she later issued a preliminary injunction which “gives some protection” to international students while the two parties compete for the legality of Trump’s position.
“Our students are terrified and we already have people transferred to other universities,” said Harvard lawyer Ian Gershengorn, during the audience in Boston.
In an eleventh hour file before the hearing, the Trump administration issued an official opinion of intention to withdraw Harvard’s ability to register foreign students – triggering the official process.
The deposit gave Harvard 30 days to produce evidence explaining why it should not be prevented from hosting and registering international students – which currently represent 27% of the Harvard student body.
Burroughs had already temporarily interrupted the policy and extended this break Thursday, pending the new injunction. She said she would examine if Trump officials acted with “a reason for reprisals”.
A law professor in the packaged courtroom said that the Trump administration extended the suffering of students.
“Harvard is in this purgatory. What should international student do? ” said the Harvard Law School graduate, who refused to be appointed.
“Pride and approval”
There was “this spectrum of other actions” that the government could still take to prevent Harvard from welcoming international students, added the judge.
The institution of Ivy League continuously attracted Trump’s anger while publicly rejecting repeated requests from his administration to make control of recruitment, programs and research priorities.
“Harvard treats our country with a great lack of respect, and everything they do is more and more in -depth,” said Trump on Wednesday.
Harvard president Alan Garber obtained a huge acclamation when he recognized that international students attend the diploma with their families, calling it “as it should be”. He did not directly mention the Trump dispute.
Garber received a standing ovation, of which a student said that AFP “revealed the pride and approval of the community”.
He led the legal resistance within the American academic world after Trump has targeted several prestigious universities – including Columbia, who made radical concessions to the administration in order to recover $ 400 million in federal subsidies withdrawn.
Garber recognized that Harvard faces challenges with anti -Semitism and to promote a climate where a diversity of views can be expressed freely.
The graduate student Uzma Farheen, from India, who obtained a master’s degree in public health, said that the day was that of “the love of the world community”.
“We are united to represent powerfully what Harvard represents-truth, integrity and inclusion,” she told AFP.
Before the ceremony – where the legend of the scene and the screen, Rita Moreno, obtained an honorary diploma – members of the Harvard Band in Crimson Blazers walked in the narrow streets of Cambridge.
Hundreds of students gathered in front of a large scene to hear speeches – including one entirely in Latin – in a grassy area closed to the public for security reasons.
Many students from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government transported inflatable plastic globes during the ceremony to symbolize the international character of the school.
“In the past two months, it has been very difficult. I felt extremely vulnerable,” said Lorena Mejia, 36, a Colombian graduate who obtained a master in public administration and proudly wore dresses identifying his nationality.
