Trump administration appeals order protecting Harvard's foreign students
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Harvard argued that Trump was unlawfully using his power to 'pursue a government vendetta' against the school. It has two lawsuits pending against the administration; one over foreign students and the other focused on billions of dollars in government-funded research cuts.
Burroughs, who is presiding over the lawsuit related to foreign students filed in May, issued another preliminary injunction on June 20 halting the administration's effort to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students.
Yet, later that day, the president
The president's announcement came after the Trump administration announced in May it was immediately revoking Harvard's ability to enroll foreign students, and ordered those already attending the school to either transfer or leave the country.
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem said the punishment was in response to Harvard's failure to provide information the administration had demanded on April 16 about the criminality and misconduct of foreign students on its campus.
However, in its lawsuit, Harvard called it 'the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government's demands to control Harvard's governance, curriculum, and the 'ideology' of its faculty and students.'
The administration has been locked in an escalating legal and financial battle with Harvard since April when the elite school rejected a list of demands to address what the administration says is a longstanding culture of antisemitism, racial discrimination, and political bias at the school.
Harvard's suit alleges that the administration demanded an unprecedented amount of information related to international students, then claimed Harvard's response was 'insufficient,' without explaining why or citing any regulation that Harvard had failed to comply with.
Harvard alleges that the revocation of its ability to enroll international students is 'a blatant violation' of its First Amendment and Due Process rights and argues it would have an immediate and devastating impact on the university
Trump has accused Harvard and other elite universities of fomenting anti-American ideology and failing to
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