- Harvard has sued Trump administration for the second time in less than a month. The lawsuit is 24 hours after the White House blocked international students from visiting the school. Harvard’s officials say that the students could lead to the students are ready to leave the country.
Less than 24 hours after instruction from the Trump management of the Department of Homeland Security Block international students The academic facility sued the visit to Harvard University to prevent this.
The renowned university accused the administration of a “retaliation campaign” and said that it would submit an inquiry for a temporary injunction that blocks the move. Harvard has been organizing F-1-Visa students for more than 70 years, it said under 14 presidential administrations.
“With the blow of a abbey, the government tried to extinguish a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the university and their mission.” The lawsuit is. “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.
The school found that the “unprecedented and retaliation” threatens to disturb the life of the students. More than 7,000 Harvard students are Visa owners, and the school says that they “would only be completed a few days before many are completed”. Thousands should also come on campus for summer and autumn, but they could no longer enter the country legally.
The Trump government has at least Eight ongoing studies After Harvard and said it tried to counter anti -Semitism and liberal prejudices at the school (and other universities of the Ivy League). In the lawsuit, Harvard said that it was a request from the White House created in April and has called for records on protest activities in the past five years, despite the “unprecedented nature and scope” of demand.
Harvard also argued that the decertification of his study and exchange visitor program had violated the first change rights of the school and said: “Because the administration perceives that members of the Harvard community have the wrong viewpoint, Harvard is punished until it changes their positions to meet the requirements of the administration.”
This is that second action Harvard has submitted against the government in the past few weeks. The first focused on freezing on research financing of 2.2 billion US dollars.
This story was originally on Fortune.com