The judge temporarily blocks Trump -Plan to prevent Harvard, to record foreign students

A judge has issued a temporary injunction that blocks the Trump government's plan to remove Harvard University through its ability to register foreign students.

The verdict came after Harvard had filed a lawsuit – the recent escalation of a dispute between the White House and one of the most respected institutions in America.

The university said that the government's decision on Thursday to prevent international students was an “obvious violation” of the law and freedom of speech.

The Trump government says Harvard has not done enough to combat anti -Semitism and change its attitudes and admission practices – allegations that the university is strongly rejected.

The US district judge Allison Burroughs issued a temporary injunction in a short judgment on Friday.

The order continues a step that the Ministry of Homeland Security took on Thursday to revoke Harvard's access to the student and exchange visitor program (SEVP) – a government database that manages foreign students.

The next hearing will take place on May 29 in Boston.

“With the stroke of a abbey, the government tried to extinguish a quarter of Harvard's student, international students who contribute significantly to the university and their mission,” argued Harvard in the lawsuit.

“We condemn this illegal and unjustified action,” said Harvard President Alan Garber in a letter.

“The revocation continues a number of state measures to take revenge against Harvard because we refused to give up our academic independence and to submit to the illegal assertion of the federal government through our curriculum, our faculty and our student body,” he wrote.

In response, the deputy spokesman for the White House, Abigail Jackson said: “If Harvard only took care of the end of the scourge of anti -American, anti -Semitic, proterrorist agitators on their campus, they would not be in this situation.

After the injunction was issued, Ms. Jackson accused the judge at a “liberal agenda”.

“These judges, which are not elected, have no right to prevent the Trump government from exercising their lawful control over immigration policy and national security policy,” she said.

It was quiet in Harvard on Friday. The lessons have been completed for the year and preparations for the beginning are made. Pavilions climbed into quad when the students rented their clothes and collected tickets for family members.

It should be a week of the celebration for those graduates. But for foreign students who hope to stay in the United States, it was a 24-hour vertebrae.

The Harvard international student body sought through the whole morning to find out what would happen. Would you have to leave the USA immediately? Were you the risk of deportation now?

Cormac Savage from Downpatrick in Co Down Northern Ireland is six days of his degree in government and languages. He accepts a job in Brussels, partly because of the uncertainty in the United States.

“They know that they are doing well if they are still legally in the USA for the next 90 days, but they don't know that they can come back and end their conclusion,” he said on Friday. “You don't know if you can stay in the United States and work if you are shortly before graduation.

The order also makes the plans for students who are still participating in a junior from Great Britain who will rely on his visa in New York in June.

“I was worried if I went home, I wouldn't come back,” he said to BBC, so he decided to stay on the campus.

For a group of international students who gathered on the banks of Charles River, such as rowing teams who were sealed off, the relief was felt when the news from the Boston Court was received.

Mr. Battula also felt relieved after judge Burroughs had issued her arrangement. But the uncertainty still demands a tribute.

“It is surreal to believe that even for some time they remain illegal in a country just because they were there at the university,” said Battula.

There are around 6,800 international students in Harvard who make up more than 27% of the registered students this year.

About a fifth of them comes from China, with considerable numbers from Canada, India, South Korea and Great Britain. Among the currently registered international students is the future Queen of Belgium, 23-year-old Princess Elisabeth.

Leo Ackerman was to study education and entrepreneurship in Harvard from August and fulfilled a “dream”.

“I was very excited and I am still very excited when I manage to go there,” said Ackerman. “When it has taken away, many people are a really sad moment.”

The removal of foreign students would take out a large bite of Harvard's finances. Experts say that international students tend to pay full tuition fees and essentially subsidize help for American students.

According to the university, basic study lessons – without fees, living space, books, food or health insurance – will achieve 59,320 USD (43,850 GBP) of $ 59,320 (43,850 GBP). The total costs of a year in Harvard before financial support is usually significantly more than $ 100,000.

Isaac Bangura, a student of the public administration from Sierra Leone, moved to Harvard with his wife and two young daughters after surviving a civil war.

“Since yesterday my children have asked: 'Papa, I understand that they come to return home.' They refer to deportation, “he said.

He said he had to be strong for her and have believed. “I know that the American people always find paths when they are problems, to solve it,” he said.

In addition to Harvard, the Trump administration focused on other elite institutions and not only argues that they should do more to capture pro-Palestinian activists, but also claim that they discriminate conservative positions.

On Friday, President Donald Trump said from the Oval Office: “Harvard has to change his way” and suggested consider taking measures against more universities.

In April, the White House called for USD 2.2 billion (1.7 billion GBP) in federal financing according to Harvard, and Trump has threatened to remove the university's tax-fighting status, a standard name for US educational institutions.

The financing frier prompted a former Harvard lawsuit and also asked the courts to stop the administration's actions.

Carl Tobias, a professor of the University of Richmond, said federal courts in Massachusetts and New England, where the first phases of the case will have an impact, have consistently decided against the Trump administration.

However, the result can be less predictable in front of the US Supreme Court, where Harvard's case may end.

“These are difficult problems for Harvard, but they have the resources and they seem to have the will to fight,” said Tobias.

Harvard's leaders have made concessions to the White House – including the discharge of the leaders of his Center for Studies from the Middle East who were under fire because they had not represented Israeli perspectives.

But also several top -class Republican lawyers, including Robert Hur, a former special consultant who examined Joe Bidens storage of classified documents.

Foreign students who are currently participating in Harvard have worried that the series could force them to switch to another university or return home. Registration at the SEVP system is a prerequisite for student visa, and if Harvard is blocked from the database, the students can be determined in violations and may be written off.

Several British students who were inscribed in Harvard, who spoke to the BBC for fear of the immigration authorities, feared that their US training could be reduced.

“I definitely think

“There is a lot of trouble, people have the feeling that they are used as farmers in a game.”

With the reporting of Kayla Epstein in New York, Bernd Debusmann in the White House and the user generated by BBC