A federal judge said Monday that he would issue a brief extension of an order to temporarily block the plan of the president of the United States, Donald Trump, to prohibit foreign citizens from entering the US. UU. To study at Harvard University while deciding whether to issue a long -term judicial order.
The American district judge Allison Burroughs, at the end of a Boston hearing in Harvard’s legal challenge to restrictions, extended to June 23 a temporary restriction order that had expired on Thursday. She said she wanted to take more time to prepare a decision.
“We will comment an opinion as soon as we can,” he said.
Ian Gershengorn, Harvard’s lawyer, told him that a court order was necessary to ensure that Trump’s administration could not implement his latest bet to reduce school’s ability to house international students.
The judge scheduled the hearing after issuing a temporary restriction order on June 6, preventing the administration from implementing a proclamation that Trump had signed a day before. A preliminary judicial order would provide a long -term relief to Harvard.
Gershengorn argued that Trump signed the proclamation to retaliate against Harvard in violation of his rights of freedom of expression under the first amendment of the United States Constitution to refuse to access the demands of his administration to control governance, the curriculum and the ideology of his faculty and students.
“Proclamation is a simple rape of the first amendment,” Gershengorn said.
Almost 6,800 international students attended Harvard in their most recent school year, representing about 27 percent of the student population of the prestigious school located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. China and India are among the main countries of origin for these students.
The Trump administration has launched a multifront attack against the oldest and most rich American university, freezing billions of dollars in subsidies and other funds and proposing to end its tax -free state, which causes a series of legal challenges.
Harvard has submitted two separate demands before Burroughs seeking to defrost $ 2.5 billion in funds and prevent the Trump administration from blocking the capacity of international students to attend university.
The Secretary of National Security, Kristi Noem, on May 22 announced that his department immediately revoked the certification of the Student and Exchange Visitors Program of Harvard, the government mechanism that allows him to register foreign students.
Its action was almost immediately blocked by Burroughs. Although the National Security Department has changed to challenge Harvard certification through a longer administrative process, Burroughs at a May 29 hearing said it planned to issue a “broad” mandate to maintain the status quo.
However, a week later, Trump signed his proclamation, which he cited national security concerns to affirm that Harvard “is no longer a reliable administrator of international students and exchanges visitors.”
The proclamation suspended the entry of foreign citizens to study in Harvard or participate in change visitors for an initial period of six months and ordered Secretary of State Frame to consider whether to revoke visas of international students already enrolled in Harvard.
Harvard has asked Burroughs, a designated Democratic President Barack Obama, to block Trump’s directive.
In judicial documents, the United States Department of Justice urged Burroughs not to group Trump’s proclamation with the consideration of the judge of Noem’s actions, since it does not prohibit existing students and Trump was based on a different legal authority for their order.
