On Thursday, the US judge blocked the order of President Donald Trump, who banned almost all foreign students admitted to Harvard University on Wednesday. This prestigious school has previously condemned his step and described as an illegal retaliation for refusing to meet several government requirements. According to the AFP report, TASR reports this.
Harvard filed a lawsuit against Trump’s order on Thursday and thus extended the legal steps he has already taken against the President’s administration over the past few weeks. According to Judge Allison D. Burroughs The University has shown that without a court order, it threatens “immediate and irreparable harm before the possibility to hear all parties”.
Trump justified the decision to block the entry into the US for almost all foreign students adopted at Harvard University in particular by the need to protect national security. According to Harvard, however, these measures did not take “to protect the interests of the United States” and the university described them as “government revenge”.
The prohibition is currently valid for six months, and the government has to decide on its possible extension within 90 days. Approximately 7,000 foreign students will affect. Trump Harvard describes the “anti -Semitic, extreme left -wing institution” and his administration has already taken several steps against the university, including reducing grants.
Harvard’s management claims that the Trump administration regulations have created an environment full of “deep fear, uncertainty and confusion”, in which many foreign students ask him to transfer to other universities.
