Federal judge blocks Trump's latest effort to ban Harvard's international students
Source: Politico
06/05/2025 08:32 PM EDT
A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump's bid to prevent international students from entering the U.S. or getting visas to attend Harvard University.
U.S. District Judge Allison Burroughs issued a temporary restraining order Thursday night instructing the Department of Homeland Security and the State Department to disregard a proclamation Trump issued Wednesday wielding presidential immigration authority to effectively ban foreign nationals from entering the U.S. to study or teach at Harvard.
In a two-page order, Burroughs said Harvard showed it "will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties" about the legality of Trump's directive. The judge's order came less than four hours after the Ivy League school added claims about Trump's proclamation to a pending lawsuit over an earlier Trump administration move to revoke a certification Harvard has held for more than 70 years to enroll foreign students.
Burroughs, an Obama appointee, issued a similar restraining order against the earlier move by Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. At a hearing in Boston last week, the judge also stated her intention to issue a preliminary injunction that would preserve what she called "the status quo" as the litigation continues. She'd instructed both sides to work on the wording of that order before Trump escalated the battle Wednesday with his proclamation.
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Link to ORDER (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25964963-harvardtrotwo060525/
Link to ORDER (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25964963/harvardtrotwo060525.pdf
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