Harvard granted a short -term victory in the international student fight

A Federal Boston judge agreed on Monday to extend a temporary ban order blocking President Donald Trump’s attempt to prevent international students from entering the United States to study in Harvard.

The update is a short -term victory for the oldest university in the country in its several months’ fight with the Trump administration.

Harvard lawyers had urged US district judge Allison Burroughs on Monday to extend two prohibition orders that prevented the Trump administration from revoking its references as part of the student program and visitors’ exchange, or SEVP, and which temporarily blocked a proclamation that Trump signed earlier this month which prevented the foreign nationals United States if they planned to study or search at Harvard.

“The proclamation is a simple violation of the first amendment,” Ian Gershengorn, lawyer for Harvard, in judge Burroughs in court on Monday, asking for a preliminary injunction, a more sustainable form of compensation by the court.

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Burroughs extended the temporary ban order until June 23, noting that it needed more time to officially reign the application for injunctive repair.

“We are going to launch an opinion as soon as possible,” she told court on Monday afternoon, shortly before the procedures for the day.

The problem is a pressure to revoke Harvard’s references as part of his SEVP program, announced by the secretary of the DHS, Kristi Noem, in May; and a separate proclamation signed by Trump in June, seeking to block foreign nationals Entrance to the United States if they planned to study or carry out research at Harvard.

The two actions were temporarily blocked by Burroughs. Now, school lawyers are pressure for a more permanent form of rescue known as the preliminary injunction.

In the meantime, Harvard lawyers said that the Trump administration’s actions injected “unnecessary uncertainty for Harvard and his students, who could once again have their status as non-immigrants legally present in the United States.

Harvard argued that the actions of the Trump administration would violate the law on administrative procedure, the first amendment and the fifth amendment – injecting “continuous chaos and sustainable damage to Harvard without imperious reason,” they said in a file.

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Trump officials accused Harvard University To “promote violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus”, according to a statement earlier this year, and not to have explained “a known illegal activity” on its campus.

Harvard lawyers told Burroughs on Monday before the court that these actions had already injected uncertainty in the life of their international students.

They noted that some foreign students were wrongly refused visas after indicating their plans to study at Harvard, while at least four other students were wrongly detained by customs and protection of American borders earlier this month when they arrived in the United States at Logan International Airport in Boston.

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Harvard is also fighting to keep his SEVP accreditation. The program is managed by the Department of Internal Security and allows universities to sponsor international students for American visas for the duration of their registration in a public university.

If he loses this status, experts previously declared Fox News, thousands of international students currently registered in Harvard will have a close window to be transferred to another American university, to lose their student visa within 180 days.

Harvard lawyers previously declared to Burroughs that the end of their SEVP certification would affect around 7,000 international students at Harvard – or approximately 27% of his total student body.

The hearing on Monday was the last in a series of legal dust between Harvard to the Trump administration – or vice versa – in the second mandate of Trump’s White House.

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Since Trump took office in January, the administration has already fixed more than $ 2 billion in grants and contracts granted to university and has proposed to end its tax exemption status, among others.

The administration also aims at Harvard with investigations carried out by six distinct federal agencies.

Combined, these actions have created a wide degree of uncertainty at Harvard.

Legal experts noted the courtyard Wad in a largely unexplored territory.

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When asked how it could be played, many researchers highlighted a lack of precedent and offered no clear response.

“As with many things that Trump does, the answer is not clear, because it has never been made before,” said Josh Blackman, Professor of Law South Texas South Law Collegesaid last month. “No president has tried to do it before, so I don’t think there is a clear precedent on the answer.”