A new failure for Donald Trump in his attack on Harvard. The federal judge Ellison Burrose failed on Thursday that the federal government cannot apply the order to prohibit the arrival of new foreign students in the institution. The judge’s decision came after Harvard changed the lawsuit filed on May 23 against another order of the government, which sought to prevent Harvard’s enrollment, the order that Burrose had already blocked earlier.
The judge from Boston gave an order to limit the precaution, given that Harvard would encounter “immediate and irreparable damage” if Trump’s decree enters into force, and. He was looking for June 16.
Harvard President, Alan Garber, urged the judge to act quickly. “While the court considers our statement, plans for unforeseen circumstances are being developed to ensure that foreign students and researchers can continue their work in Harvard this summer and during the next school year,” he said in a statement soon after the university changed his lawsuit in the Boston Federal Court.
When making an order on Wednesday, Trump said that Harvard’s refusal to submit an entry on unlawful actions by foreign students representing a risk to national security. His order blocked the country of foreign students and researchers from Harvard. In May, the administration canceled the university’s ability to approve its visas.
Trisha Maclaflin, Deputy Secretary of the Department of National Security, said that the decision on Thursday “delayed justice and seeks to weaken the constitutional powers of the president.”
“Registration of foreign students and the benefit from their highest enrollation in order to increase their billionaires – this is a privilege, not law; This has not changed, ”he said in a statement. “The Trump administration seeks to restore common sense in our student visa system, and we hope that the Supreme Court is right.”
This is another step in the confrontation of the White House with the oldest and wealthy university in the country. Last week, the federal court in Boston blocked the attempt by the National Security Department to prevent the participation of foreign students in Harvard.
According to the Associated Press, Trump’s order refers to another legal basis. Trump applied a federal law that gives the president the authority to block the entry of foreigners, whose presence will be “harmful to the interests of the United States.” This environment referred to the same standard, announcing a ban on the entrance for citizens from 12 countries and restrictions for seven others. The order against Harvard also mentions other laws, including one that prohibits the penetration of foreigners associated with terrorist organizations.
The conflict arises in Harvard’s refusal to comply with a number of requirements of the federal government. The tension has intensified in the last days, after the Department of National Security confirmed that the university refused to provide documents related to the incorrect behavior of foreign students.
“In my opinion, this is an unacceptable risk to the security of our country that the academic institution refuses to provide sufficient information, at the request, at known cases of misconduct and crime committed by foreign students,” Trump says in his order.
Sources of the Trump administration raised pressure and searched for new press fronts in Harvard, reducing more than 2.6 billion dollars in subsidies for research and promotion to cancel all federal contracts with the university. The last threat was examined by approximately 7,000 international Harvard students who represent half of the enrollment in some of their graduate students.