US court issues an interim blocking of Trump’s ban on foreign students in Harvard
On Monday, a federal judge prevented the administration of US President Donald Trump from preventing his plan to prevent foreign citizens from studying the USA to study at Harvard University.
The US district judge Allison Burroughs in Boston made an injunction that to hold Trump’s administration from the fulfillment of his latest offer to organize Harvard’s ability to organize international students in an escalating fight against the prestigious Ivy League School.
The injunction expands a temporary order that the judge issued on June 5, which prevents the administration from doing so, a proclamation that signed Trump signed the national security concerns the day before, to justify why Harvard could no longer trust international students.
The proclamation banned the foreigners to enter the USA, to study in Harvard or to take part in the exchange visitor programs for a first period of six months, and to head the Foreign Minister Marco Rubio, to check whether the visa of international students already enrolled in Harvard should be revoked.
Burroughs wrote: “At its root, this case is core rights for constitutional rights that must be secured: freedom of thought, freedom of expression and freedom of speech, each of which is a pillar of a functioning democracy and a major hedge against authoritarianism.”
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“Apparently here the misguided efforts by the government to control a serious academic facility and suppress different points of view, apparently because in some cases they threaten to threaten their own views of threatening these rights,” she wrote.
“To make things worse, the government tries to achieve this at least partially on the back of international students, with little thoughts about the consequences for them or ultimately for our own citizens.”
Almost 6,800 international students attended Harvard in the last school year and made up about 27% of the student of the local school in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
US President Donald Trump goes in the south lawn when he arrived in Washington in the White House on June 21, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)
Trump signed the proclamation after his government had already frozen billions of dollars to the oldest and richest US university, threatened Harvard’s tax exemption status and initiated several investigations into school.
Trump said on Friday on Friday that his government could announce a contract with Harvard in the next week or something “to solve the White House campaign against the university, which has led a legal fight against the government’s lawsuit.
Harvard claims that Trump to deny speech freedom as part of the first change in the US constitution against freedom of speech against the demand of the administration, the governance of the school, the curriculum and the ideology of her faculty and students.
The university submitted two separate lawsuits in front of Burroughs to eat a financing of around 2.5 billion US dollars and prevent the administration from blocking the ability of international students to attend university.
The latter lawsuit was submitted after the secretary of the home protection, Kristi Noem on May 22nd, announced that her department immediately revoked the certification of Harvard’s student and exchange visitors with which they could enroll foreign students.
Noem accused the university of “violence, anti -Semitism and coordination with the Communist Party of the Chinese Party”.
Your action was blocked almost immediately by Burroughs. While the Ministry of Homeland Protection has since shifted to Harvard’s certification for months, Burroughs said at a hearing on May 29, an injunction to maintain the status quo, which it officially carried out on Friday.
A week after the hearing, Trump signed his proclamation, in which concerns about Harvard’s acceptance of foreign money including China and his statement was an inadequate response from the school to the demand of his government for foreign students.
Anti-Israel demonstrators gather together on Cambridge in order to protest against Harvard’s attitude to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza and to show support for the Palestinian people outside of Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Joseph Prezioso/AFP). (Joseph Prezioso/AFP)
His administration has accused Harvard of creating an uncertain environment of Jewish students and having anti -Semitism fueled on his campus. Protests against the US allied Israel since October 7, 2023, the attacks led by Hamas and the subsequent war in Gaza, including numerous universities, including Harvards.
The President of Harvard, Alan Garber, previously said that the university had made changes to the fight against anti -Semitism. But Harvard, he said, will not deviate from his “core protected principles” even after receiving the federal ultimatum.
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