- The Harvard subsidy of $ 3.2 billion, contracts cut by the Trump administration.
- Int’l students represent 27% of the total registration in Varsity.
- The judge quotes “an irreparable injury” behind the decision against the United States.
New York: An American court has put a temporary stay on Donald Trump’s last efforts to prevent foreign students from registering in Harvard, while the Battle of the American president with one of the most prestigious universities in the world has intensified.
On Wednesday, a proclamation published by the White House sought to prohibit most of the new international students from Harvard in the country and said that existing foreign registrants were likely to end their visa.
“Harvard’s conduct gave him an inappropriate destination for foreign students and researchers,” said the order.
Harvard quickly changed an existing complaint filed before the Federal Court, saying: “This is not the administration’s first attempt to break Harvard from its international students.”
“”[It] is part of a concerted and growing reprisal campaign by the government in the event of a clear remuneration for Harvard’s exercise its first amendment rights to reject government demands to control governance, the Harvard study program and the “ideology” of its teachers and students. “”
US district judge Allison Burroughs judged on Thursday that the government could not apply Trump’s proclamation.
Harvard had shown, she said, that without a temporary ban prescription, this was likely to undergo “immediate and irreparable injuries before there was an opportunity to hear all parties”.
The same judge had already blocked Trump’s previous efforts to prevent international students from registering for legendary university.
‘Vendetta’
The government has already reduced around $ 3.2 billion in federal subsidies and contracts for the benefit of Harvard and has undertaken to exclude the Cambridge, Massachusetts institution from any future federal funding.
Harvard was at the forefront of Trump’s campaign against the best universities after having challenged his calls to submit to the surveillance of his study program, his staff, the recruitment of students and “diversity from a point of view”.
Trump also distinguished international students at Harvard, who represented 27% of the total registration during the 2024-2025 academic year and constitute a major revenue source.
In his file, Harvard recognized that Trump had the power to ban a whole class of foreigners if it was judged in the public interest, but stressed that this was not the case in this action.
“The president’s actions are therefore not undertaken to protect the” interests of the United States “but rather to continue a government vendetta against Harvard,” he said.
Since his return to office, Trump has targeted American elite universities that he and his allies have accused of being households in anti -Semitism, liberal bias and “awake” ideology.
Trump’s secretary of education also threatened on Wednesday to go beyond the University of Columbia from his accreditation.
The Republican targeted the institution of the New York Ivy League for having pretended to ignore the harassment of Jewish students, throwing all its federal funding.
Unlike Harvard, several major institutions – including Columbia – have already tilted large -scale requests from the Trump administration.
