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Harvard sues Trump admin for international registration ban from students

FileToto: People go on the Harvard University Business School campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, April 15, 2025.

Faith Ninivaggi | Reuters

Harvard University filed a lawsuit on Friday in which the ban on the private school of the Trump government on the alleged tolerance towards “anti-American, terrorist agitators” on campus was reversed.

The lawsuit came a day after the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard's ability to record foreign students as part of the F-1 visa program at the behest of secretary Kristi Noem.

DHS said Harvard was excluded from the enrollment of future international students, and that current foreign students who were enrolled at the school had to leave or risk school to lose their legal status in the United States. The ban concerns more than 7,000 current Visa owners who study in Harvard.

“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,” said the lawsuit at the US district court in Massachusetts.

“The certification of Harvard is essential for each of the thousands of international students from Harvard in order to remain lawful in this country, while they complete the courses, receive degrees and continue critical research,” says the lawsuit.

The lawsuit described the revocation as “obvious violation of the first change” and the proper procedural clause of the US constitution. The school also said that it was the “latest law of the government in clear retaliation for Harvard, which exercised its first amendment rights to control the demands of the government to control Harvards governance, curriculum and the” ideology “of its faculty and students.”

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DHS said on Thursday that she revoked the certification of Harvards Student and Exchange Visitor Program because the management of the Ivy League School “created an insecure campus environment by enabling anti-American, terrorist agitators to harass and people, including many Jewish students, and otherwise the temporary learning environment.”

Harvard's lawsuit found that the Trump government campaign took place days before the conclusion.

“Without his international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” says the complaint.

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