Harvard University Sues Trump, Accusing President of Illegal Retaliation Against Foreign Students. The Ivy League school filed an amended complaint, alleging the President's action to block foreign student visas is an illegal attempt to punish Harvard for rejecting White House demands, violating First Amendment rights and impacting thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders
Harvard University files amended complaint, accusing President Trump of illegally retaliating against the Ivy League school by blocking foreign student visas. This action, deemed an end-run around a prior court order, targets Harvard's F-1 and J-1 visa holders and violates the university's First Amendment rights. The lawsuit seeks to prevent the administration from barring thousands of international students from attending
Harvard University challenges President Trump's illegal ban on foreign students, arguing his action targeting Harvard students is not a legitimate exercise of power under federal law allowing the blocking of a "class of aliens." The university's amended complaint contends the President's move is retaliatory, violating Harvard's First Amendment rights and impacting thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders. This legal challenge seeks to prevent the ban on international students from attending Harvard
Harvard accuses President Trump of illegal retaliation, claiming his ban on foreign students is a vendetta, not a measure to protect U.S. interests. The university's amended complaint argues the action violates a prior court order and targets Harvard specifically, not a legitimate "class of aliens" as claimed. This latest legal challenge seeks to block the ban impacting thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders
Harvard University files amended complaint against President Trump's ban on foreign students, arguing it's illegal retaliation for defying White House demands. A Boston federal judge previously blocked a similar Homeland Security action, and this new filing seeks to block Trump's latest attempt, citing First Amendment violations and improper targeting of Harvard students. The lawsuit challenges the legality of the President's use of federal law to restrict a "class of aliens," arguing it unfairly targets Harvard's 7,000+ F-1 and J-1 visa holders
Trump's new policy threatens to block thousands of international students from attending Harvard University in Cambridge, MA, this summer and fall. This action, impacting F-1 and J-1 visa holders and their dependents, is viewed by Harvard as illegal retaliation for the university's defiance of White House demands
Harvard accuses the Trump administration of using over 7,000 F-1 and J-1 visa students and their dependents as pawns in a retaliatory campaign against the university, escalating its legal challenge to the President's immigration policies
Harvard University Files Amended Complaint Against Trump's Foreign Student Ban: BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. The Ivy League school challenges the President's latest action as illegal retaliation, citing First Amendment violations and a government vendetta. Read the full story below
Ethiopian student Yonas Nuguse overcomes conflict, pandemic, and communication blackouts to achieve his dream: acceptance into Harvard University. His perseverance through the Tigray conflict and COVID-19, amidst internet and phone shutdowns, prevented timely high school completion, yet he ultimately triumphed
Harvard's legal battle with the Trump administration threatens international students' fall enrollment, including Yonas Nuguse, an admitted student from Ethiopia. The ongoing feud casts uncertainty over thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders' ability to attend the Ivy League campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, jeopardizing their academic futures
Ethiopian student Yonas Nuguse overcame the Tigray conflict, pandemic restrictions, and limited internet access to achieve his dream of attending Harvard University. Facing school closures and communication blackouts, he dedicated a gap year to studying and saving for his TOEFL exam in Addis Ababa, paving his path to higher education
Harvard Acceptance Brings Joy Amidst Tigray Conflict: Ethiopian Student's Triumph Over Adversity
Harvard University, a leading institution renowned globally, faces legal action against President Trump's attempt to bar international students. This unprecedented move, impacting thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders, creates uncertainty for the quarter of Harvard's student body who are from other countries, forcing them to reconsider their educational plans. The university argues this action is illegal retaliation for rejecting White House demands, violating its First Amendment rights
President Trump's executive order barring Harvard's international students sparks legal battle. The move, deemed illegal retaliation by Harvard, follows a failed attempt by the Trump administration to revoke the university's certification for hosting foreign students. Harvard's lawsuit alleges a violation of First Amendment rights and seeks to block the order impacting thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders
Harvard Defends International Students Against Trump Administration Ban, Calling it Illegal Retaliation. The Ivy League university is challenging the President's order blocking foreign students, arguing it violates a previous court ruling and infringes on First Amendment rights. Harvard's lawsuit protects thousands of F-1 and J-1 visa holders
The standoff with Harvard comes as the administration has been tightening scrutiny of student visas nationwide. Thousands of students around the country abruptly lost permission to be in the U.S. this spring before the administration reversed itself, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced last week the U.S. would “aggressively revoke” visas for students from China.
“It is one blow after another,” said Mike Henniger, CEO of Illume Student Advisory Services, who works with colleges in the U.S., Canada and Europe to recruit international students. “At this point, international student interest in the U.S. has basically dropped to nil.”
The future of Harvard’s international students has been hanging in the balance since the Department of Homeland Security first moved to block its foreign enrollment on May 22.
For many, the twists and turns have been exhausting. Jing, a 23-year-old master’s student, is currently completing an internship in China this summer, and unsure if he can reenter the U.S. for the fall semester.
“It is tiring, we all feel numb now. Trump just makes big news headlines once every few days since he got back to the White House,” said Jing, who agreed to speak under his family name out of concern about retaliation from the Trump administration.
Jing said he is going to watch and see what happens for now, in case the move against international students is a negotiating tactic that does not stick.
The possibility that Trump could block foreign enrollment at other colleges only raises the uncertainty for students planning to pursue their education overseas, said Craig Riggs, who has been working in international education for about 30 years and is the editor of ICEF Monitor. He said he urges families to consult carefully with advisers and not to overreact to the day’s headlines.
“The rules under which students would make this huge decision to devote years of their lives and quite a bit of money to studying at Harvard have been shown to change quite quickly,” Riggs said.
An aspiring economist, Nuguse was the only student accepted to Harvard this year from Kalamino Special High School, which caters to gifted students from underprivileged backgrounds from across Tigray.
After receiving acceptances also to Columbia University and Amherst College, Nuguse chose Harvard, which he had long dreamed of attending. He said he hopes it will work out to attend Harvard.
Nuguse was granted a visa to study at Harvard, and he worries it might be too late to reverse his decision and attend another university anyway. He received an email from Harvard last week, telling him to proceed with his registration and highlighting a judge’s order in Harvard’s favor in the dispute over foreign enrollment.
“I hope the situation is temporary and I can enroll on time to go on and realize my dream far from reality in Ethiopia,” he said.
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Associated Press writers Collin Binkley, Jocelyn Gecker and Cheyanne Mumphrey contributed to this report.
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