US Federal Judge in Boston, Massachusetts on Thursday It confirmed the validity of its preliminary measure, which blocked the decision of President Donald Trump’s administration prohibiting Harvard University to accept foreign students. TASR informs this based on the AFP report.
Trump’s government forbade Harvard to receive foreign students, who make up 27 percent of all students, 22 May. The federal judge Allison Burroughs, appointed by President Barack Obama, was canceled shortly afterwards. On Thursday after hearing the arguments of lawyers Harvard and the government, she confirmed its decision.
Burroughs verdict will provide temporary protection to foreign students, who is currently studying at Harvard University nearly 6800. The final decision has not yet been made in this dispute.
Harvard is considered one of the richest universities in the world with an estimated $ 53 billion. Trump, however, calls it an “anti -Semitic, extremely left -wing institution”. It justifies this by propalestinian demonstrations on her land, which took place after the beginning of the war in the Gaza Strip. The University also refused to meet the government’s requirements for the abolition of diversity programs and verifying its students.
Trump’s government on Tuesday called on federal authorities to cancel all the remaining contracts with Harvard University, that would lose $ 100 million. Trump on Monday on his Truth Social platform He threatened that the University will cut federal grants for another $ three billion and provide them to business schools in the United States. He did not specify what grants he meant, or how they could be redistributed. His government has previously frozen Harvard Multiannual Federal Grants totaling $ 2.2 billion.
