The judge again blocks the administration of Trump from the judgment of international students for the registration of Harvard

A federal judge in the Massachusetts Friday Again, he blocked the government’s attempt to revoke Harvard’s ability to register international students.

The American district judge Allison D. Burroughs issued the preliminary injunction, after granting a temporary prohibition order against the administration. In his decision, Burroughs ordered the Trump administration to “immediately” prepare advice to alert civil servants not to take into account the initial opinion and to restore “each visa holder and applicant in the post that the individual would have been absent from such a notice of revocation”. She asked that this is done in the next 72 hours.

Due to this injunction, the Trump administration is Also prevented from modifying or ending the certification of the Harvard students and exchanges.

The Trump administration is likely to appeal this decision at the first circuit court of appeal.

The decision comes after the Trump administration in May tried to end the certification of the Harvard student and exchange visitors, which allows school to enroll international students in F-1 and M-1 visa.

THE The school continued the government The next day, and obtained a temporary burroughs ban prescription shortly after.

In a separate proclamation published earlier this month, Donald Trump said he would refuse visas to foreign students who were looking to come to the United States in order to frequent Ivy League University. The school struckAmending his trial in May and asking the court to stop the application of the proclamation, which Burroughs quickly granted.

During an audience on the injunction, Ian Heath Gershenger, a lawyer of the university, accused the administration of “using international students as pawns” and of distinguishing Harvard. Lawyers from the Ministry of Justice focused on the national security problems of the administration, saying that they did not trust Harvard to examine thousands of international students.

A lawyer for the Trump administration previously declared that he did not have the same concerns about other schools, but that could change.

For months, the government has been rooted in a rope shot with Ivy League University. In April, the joint working group of the administration to combat anti -Semitism announced that they would cut more than $ 2 billion in grants After the school rejected its requests, which included the restriction of acceptance of international students “hostile to American values ​​and institutions”.

Harvard quickly continued the administration And accused her of looking for “unprecedented and inappropriate” control of the school. While tensions intensified, the administration a few weeks later asked all federal agencies to end their contracts with Harvard – an amount totaling $ 100 million.

The targeting by the administration of the prestigious university has carried out reactions from criticisms and defenders of freedom of expression, and support for the school of other institutions.

Earlier this month, Two dozen universities have filed a memory of AMICUS In support of the school, arguing that the freezing of funding would have a more impact than Harvard, due to the interconnection of scientific research, and ultimately hinders American innovation and economic growth.

And a group of 12,041 former Harvard, including important names like Conan O’Brien and the author Margaret E. Atwood, filed a distinct thesis describing the restraint of funds as a “reckless and illegal” attempt to assert control of the school and other higher education establishments.