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Judge blocks Trump admin from the revocation of Harvard Student Visa: NPR

Judge blocks Trump admin from the revocation of Harvard Student Visa: NPR

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A look at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. A judge temporarily blocked the Trump administration from revoking Harvard's ability to register international students.

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A federal judge temporarily blocked the step of the Trump government to revoke Harvard University Ability to record international students.

Harvard submitted the lawsuit on Friday morning It would terminate the certification of the school This authorizes it to register international students and scientists.

People go through a goal while leaving Harvard Yard on the Harvard University campus in Cambridge.

According to the university ComplaintThis revocation is an “obvious violation of the first change” and a retaliation against Harvard because it “rejected the government's demands, the governance of Harvard, the curriculum and the” ideology “of their faculties and students”.

Before the federal judge Allison Burroughs issued the temporary injunction, DHS said Currently registered Visa owner that you “have to switch to another university to maintain your status without immigrants”. Harvard has almost 7,000 international students who make up About 27% of the student body.

In a statement, DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said that the Trump government “Harvard is responsible for promoting violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Chinese Communist Party on her campus”.

People gather to take photos with the John Harvard statue at Harvard University. President Trump presented another threat to Harvard's tax exemption status in a social media contribution on Friday.

In early Friday morning, Harvard's President Alan Garber spoke Die Campus community in a letter. “We condemn this illegal and unjustified action,” he wrote, said that the move of the Trump government not only is a threat to international students and scientists in Harvard, but also as a warning to countless other at colleges and universities in the whole country who have come to America to pursue their training and to fulfill their dreams. “

“Not to know whether they have 25% of their students or not is something [Harvard] I can't go until later in the summer, “says Shaun Carver, who has worked in international education for more than 20 years. He is currently an executive director of the University of California, Berkeley's International House, a residential and learning center for residential and learning, in which almost 600 students and scientists from all over the world take place.

Students and educators visit a rally at Northwestern University a week before the Trump government reversed the course on the subject of student visa. The Federal Government has now declared that it will restore the records of international students who have been deleted from a crucial database that has raised questions about the ability of the students to stay in the United States

“This makes international students ask whether the United States is still a safe and inviting place to learn,” he says. “We are already seeing fewer international applications this year.”

More than 1.1 million international students Enrolled at US universities and universities in the school year 2023-24. They do not qualify for the financial support of the federal government and therefore play a critical financial role in many schools.

In the last academic year, international students contributed almost 44 billion US dollars to the US economy. According to Nafsa: Association of International Pedagogues.

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