Harvard University has requested the administration of US President Donald Trump again, after he revoked his permission to enroll foreign students (who suppose the fourth part of the students) for alleged “anti -Semitism” of the institution.
In the lawsuit, filed this Friday in a court in the Massachusetts district, the educational center argues that this revocation is a “flagrant violation of the first amendment” and a “retaliation against Harvard” for rejecting “its demands to control the institution, its curriculum and the ideology of teachers and students.”
The university, the most prestigious in the United States, He ensures that the actions of the administration are “illegal”, ignore the government’s own regulations and lack “a rational explanation.”
Donald Trump’s government prohibited Harvard from enrolled from foreign students yesterday, In a serious escalation in the conflict that has faced them for several months, and ordered the currently registered to move to other universities under penalty of losing their immigration status.
The decision was communicated in a letter sent to Harvard and signed by the Secretary of National SecurityKristi Noem, which indicated that the university program for foreign students and visitors has been revoked.
In his complaint, the institution states that Harvard certification to welcome foreign students is “essential” for them to legally remain in the country while completing their courses, and the revocation of this permit has “disrupted innumerable academic programs, research laboratories and clinics and courses.”
In addition, he assures that he met the requirements sent by the Administration last April to conserve their financing and provided information about students with student visas to the government, as it requested.
Harvard president has sent a message
“For international students and academics affected by yesterday’s action, you know that you are vital members of our community. You are our classmates and friends, our colleagues and mentors,” Harvard president Alan Garber wrote today on the University’s website.
Harvard already sued the Republican Administration last AprilOn the purpose of recovering its federal, frozen financing (2.6 billion dollars) for incurring alleged anti -Semitic behaviors.
The prestigious institution is one of the universities that have seen their financing threatened by reports of the ‘Federal Working Group to combat anti -Semitism’, created by Trump, for applying policies of ‘positive discrimination’ or for not accommodating what the government qualifies as “diversity of ideas.”
The accusations of anti -Semitism poured by the Republican leader refer above all to the proportions that took place last year at Columbia University (New York) and that extended to other US faculties.
