Judge blocks the Trump administration of the strip of Harvard of the ability to record international students

On Friday, a federal judge temporarily prevented the Trump administration from registering the ability of Harvard University to record foreign students, hours after the Ivy League School questioned a decision by administrative officials who were aimed at registering.

The US district judge Allison Burrough agreed to grant Harvard's application for immediate relief and to determine a hearing for May 29, in which she will check whether it should issue an injunction in the case. The Trump administration blocks your order to revoke Harvard's certification in the student and exchange visitor program.

In her short order it says that the temporary order is “justified to maintain the status until a hearing is available”.

The judge's intervention came hours after Harvard had submitted a federal action on the Decision of the Trump government To exchange information from the enrollment of foreign students and to name unconstitutional retaliation measures because it refutes the political demands of the White House. It is the second school second Men's suit Against the Trump government.

In the lawsuit submitted in Boston on Friday before the Federal Court in Boston, Harvard said that the government's lawsuit violates the first change and that an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 Visa holders” will have.

“With the blow 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 Harvard in her lawsuit.

Harvard incorporated almost 6,800 foreign students on the campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Most are doctoral students and come from more than 100 countries.

The school said that it had planned to make a temporary injunction to prevent the Ministry of Homeland Security from doing the move that the department announced on Thursday. It accused Harvard of creating an uncertain campus environment by enabling “anti-American, proterrorist agitators” to attack Jewish students on campus. Harvard also accused of coordinating the Chinese party's Communist Party and claimed that the school had already organized and trained members of a Chinese paramilitary group in 2024.

Homeland Security Sec. Kristi Noem said the lawsuit against Harvard would “serve” as a warning “other universities”.

The President of Harvard, Alan Garber, said at the beginning of this month that the university had made changes to its government in the past year and a half, including a broad strategy to combat anti -Semitism. He said Harvard would not move to “his core, legally protected principles” for retaliation. Harvard said that at a later date, it will react to allegations that Republicans will be raised for the first time by the Republicans from the Republicans of the Chinese Communist Party.

The threat to Harvard's international enrollment results from NoEM's application on April 16, which demanded that Harvard provide information about foreign students that could link them to violence or protests that could lead to their deportation.

Noem said Harvard could regain his ability to align foreign students if it creates a wealth of classification about foreign students within 72 hours. Your updated request requires all records, including audio or video material, from foreign students who take part in protests or dangerous activities on campus.

“The government claimed that its destructive measures on Harvard's failure are based on finding inquiries about information from the US Ministry of Homeland Security. In fact, Harvard reacted to the legally required proposals of the department,” Garber told the Harvard community in a declaration on Friday.

“The revocation continues a number of government measures to take revenge against Harvard to give up our academic independence and to submit to the illegal assertion of control over our curriculum, our faculty and our student body of the federal government,” he said.

“We condemn this illegal and unjustified action,” said Garber.

An earlier lawsuit from the university asked for more than 2 billion US dollars in federal cuts by the Republican administration. This lawsuit came after weeks of escalation between the Trump administration and Harvard, which had rejected the government's demands to change many of the school's guidelines and leadership, including the examination of the student body and the faculty for “visibility of the diversity”. After Harvard announced her decision, the Trump government switched to grants of $ 2.2 billion for Harvard, while Mr. Trump proposed the IRS strip Harvard of his 501 (C) (3) tax exemption status.

In the lawsuit, it was claimed that the Trump government had violated Harvard's constitutional rights by hiring federal financing, and claimed that holding back funds is “part of his pressure campaign to force Harvard to submit to the government's control over its academic programs”.

China's government said on Friday that the step of the Trump government to prohibit foreign students from Harvard would harm the international reputation of the United States. Chinese students make up a large part of Harvard's international student population, with 1,203 in 2024 coming from China.

Some of Harvards Sports team Would be practically wiped out by the decision of the Trump government. Large parts of the rowing and the pumpkin and women's football and golf service plans list international hometown on the school's website. Sportico reported in the past month that 21% of Harvard Athletic's rural players had for the 2024-25 international hometown.

Aimee Picchi contributed to this report.