Harvard challenges Trump’s efforts to block US entry for foreign students | Donald Trump News

The University of Harvard has expanded its existing trial against the administration of President Donald Trump to combat a new action that tries to prevent its international students from entering the United States.

On Thursday, the prestigious Ivy League School filed a modified complaint which alleges the last decree of Trump violates the rights of the school and its students.

One day earlier, Trump published a executive decree Affirming that “it is necessary to restrict the entry of foreign nationals who seek to enter the United States only or mainly” to attend Harvard.

He called Harvard international students as “class of foreigners” whose arrival “would be detrimental to the interests of the United States”. Consequently, he said that he had the right under the Immigration and Nationality Act to refuse them entry into the country.

But in the judicial file on Thursday, Harvard rejected this argument as the last salvo of the Trump campaign of several months to harm the school.

“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,” said the modified complaint.

He also said that by issuing a new decree to restrict the entry of the students, the Trump administration was trying to bypass an order from the existing court which prevented him from preventing the registration by Harvard from foreign students.

The complaint called the American district judge Allison Burroughs in the Massachusetts to extend her temporary ban order to include Trump’s last attack on Harvard foreign students.

“More than 7,000 Harvard F -1 and J -1 visas holders – and their dependent people – have become pawns in the growing government campaign,” Harvard wrote.

Trump began his campaign against Harvard and other eminent schools earlier this year, after taking office for a second term as president. He blamed universities for not having taken more severe measures against the demonstrations of Palestinian solidarity which arose on their campuses following the War of Israel against Gaza.

The president described anti-Semitic demonstrations and undertook to withdraw foreign students from the United States who participated. The protest organizers, on the other hand, argued that their objectives were not violent and that the actions of some were used to fix the movement overall.

Critics have also accused Trump of using demonstrations as a leverage to exercise greater control over the country’s universities, including private schools like Harvard and his colleague Ivy League, Columbia University.

In early March, Columbia – whose protest camps were emulated on campuses across the country – saw $ 400 million in federal funding stripped of its budget.

School later agreed to a list of requests published by the Trump administration, including changes to its disciplinary policies and an examination of its Middle East study program.

The Harvard University has also received a list of requests for compliance. But unlike Columbia, He refusedQuoting concerns that restrictions would limit its academic freedom.

Trump administration requirements Includes the end of Harvard’s diversity programs and allowing the federal government to audit its hiring and admission processes to “establish the diversity from a point of view”. When these requests were not satisfied, he made the body Federal fundingup to billions of dollars.

Trump also threatened to revoke the school exemption from the school and prevented it from receiving Future federal research grants.

But the attack on Harvard international students also threatened to postpone income from tuition fees. Almost a quarter of Harvard’s global student body is from overseas.

In May, the Ministry of Internal Security announcement He would revoke Harvard’s access to a system, the student exchange exchange program, where it is necessary to record information on its foreign students.

This would currently have forced Harvard students to transfer to another school, if they were in the country with a student visa. This would also have prevented Harvard from accepting other international students.

But Harvard continued the Trump administrationqualifying its actions as “reprisals” and “illegal”.

On May 23, judge Burroughs granted Harvard’s emergency petition for a ban to prevent the restriction from taking effect. But since then, the Trump administration has continued to put pressure on Harvard and other schools.

Earlier this week, for example, the Trump administration wrote a letter to Columbia’s university accreditor, accusing the New York City School of Do not come across federal laws on civil rights.