A federal judge blocked the decision of this Trump administration on Friday, May 23 to prohibit Harvard University from telling international students, said US news agency AP. A preliminary audience is scheduled for May 29.
The school had attacked the decision to make a decision a few hours before before the Massachusets District Court. “With a single pencil blow, the government erases a quarter of Harvard students,” said the complaint.
This decision is “the last act of reprisals” of the Trump administration “that seeks to take control of Harvard’s management, its programs and the ideology of the university and the students,” continues the request of 72 pages, which requires its “immediate” revocation.
Accusation of anti -Semitism
The Republican President accuses the most prestigious private universities, in particular Harvard and Columbia, having thrown out -semitism and not having sufficiently protected Jewish students during the manifestations against the Israel War in Gaza, launched after the attacks of the Islamist Palestinian Movement Hamas on October 7, 2023.
Harvard said in the last weeks that he had taken measures to ensure that Jewish or Israeli students and personnel feel excluded or intimidated on the campus, and refuses to renounce their academic freedom.
The Trump administration also criticizes Harvard for coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on his campus. The Chinese Communist Party exercises strict control on many aspects of Chinese society, including higher education, and many Chinese students will train abroad.
Almost 1,300 Chinese students are currently enrolled in Harvard, according to official figures and around 280,000 are studying at other universities in the United States.
“China has always opposed the politicization of educational cooperation,” the China Ministry of Foreign Affairs reacted on Friday, believing that this approach “will only damage the international image and reputation of the United States.”
Cupée subsidies
In its confrontation, the United States government had reduced $ 2.7 billion in Harvard. The University, one of the richest in the world, denounced these cuts in court saying that they do not want to sacrifice their academic freedom to try to recover these funds.
According to the Minister of Internal Security of the United States, Kristi Noem, the government’s decision to withdraw from Harvard his right to receive foreign students could also deprive the important money institution.
The minister had his decision of Ultimatum Shock on Thursday: if Harvard wants to find this “privilege”, he must provide a complete series of information in the 72 hours about “illegal” hypothetical activities of his foreign students in the last five years.
“We condemn these illegal and unjustified measures,” said Harvard Harvard president Alan Garber, in a statement on Friday, adding that this decision “endangers the future of thousands of students” of the University and served “to warn” those who had chosen the United States to study and “realize their dreams.”
Source: BFM TV
