An American judge blocked the ban on the Trump administration Harvard University‘s foreign registrationAccording to Reuters and the Associated Press.
District judge Allison Burroughs, appointed from former Democratic president Barack Obama, made the policy of temporary prohibition joining politics, Reuters reported on Friday.
On Thursday, the administration revoked Harvard’s ability to enroll international students in its growing battle with the Ivy League school, saying that thousands of current students must be transferred to other schools or leave the country.
A press release from the American Ministry of Internal Security accused Harvard of having created “a dangerous campus environment by allowing anti-American and pro-terrorist agitators to harass and physically attack individuals, including many Jewish students.”
The administration also accused Harvard, without presenting evidence, collusion with the Chinese Communist Party.
“This administration is due to Harvard responsible for promoting violence, anti-Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on his campus,” said Kristi Noem, secretary in the United States of internal security, in a statement.
Harvard University said on Friday morning that it was about the Trump administration for the order. In his complaintHarvard asked the court a temporary ban order.
“We condemn this illegal and unjustified action. This endangers the future of thousands of students and researchers through Harvard and serves as a warning to countless others in the colleges and universities of the country who came to America to continue their studies and realize their dreams “,” Harvard University President Alan Garber said in a message Friday.
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Harvard registered nearly 6,800 foreign students on his campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, representing more than a quarter of his student body. Most are graduate students from more than 100 countries.
While China is the greatest source of registration abroad of the university, Canada is following second place.
According to statistics from the Harvard global support services, around 500 to 800 Canadian students and academics are studying at university.
Its international office reports that around 555 Canadian students are studying this year, with 214 researchers also registered, although it notes that the data does not reflect official figures.
Trump’s pressure on Harvard is one of the wider campaign of the Republican to force universities, law firms, the media, courts and other institutions that appreciate the independence of partisan policy to align with his program.
The campaign included efforts to expel foreign students who participated in pro-Palestinian demonstrations but have not committed any crime and retaliated against law firms who employ lawyers who challenged Trump, and Trump’s suggestion to dismiss a judge for an immigration decision that the president did not like.
Harvard pushed strongly against Trump, after continuing to restore some $ 3 billion in federal subsidies that had been frozen or canceled.
Canadian students feel “panic and shock”
According to Harvard University, between studies at the prestigious university each year.
For some of them, the action of the Trump administration against Harvard was a major blow.
“It was a mixture of panic and shock,” said Thomas Mete, an economy student in Canada at Harvard University, as he first relied on the ban.
Mete said politics endangered.
“This definitely throws a key in like many of my plans. I have in progress research which also has doctoral students from England and other countries. I have a thesis that I start to write and (I am) so close to finishing my studies at Harvard. ”
Given the long and friendly relations that the two countries appreciated, Mete said that Canadian students in the United States felt very at home in Harvard.
“There is a kind of separation when you are in the United States of Canada. You are not an international student like everyone else. But I think that in the last 24 hours, we have really seen that it is simply not true,” he said.
While international students were informed that they had to find another university to study or revoke their visas, Mete said that he and other other Canadians with whom he was in contact did not intend to move.
“It puts me in a place of the same uncertainty, of frustration. But I am much happier than my school decides to fight the administration,” he said, referring to the Harvard trial against the administration.
– with reuters files
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