Harvard sues Trump management over ban on world scholar enrollment

Harvard University on Friday filed a lawsuit in search of to opposite the Trump management’s ban at the Ivy League college enrolling world scholars over its purported tolerance of “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” on campus.

The go well with got here an afternoon after the Department of Homeland Security, on the behest of its secretary, Kristi Noem, revoked Harvard’s talent to sign up overseas scholars beneath the F-1 visa program.

DHS stated Harvard used to be barred from enrolling long run world scholars, and that present overseas scholars enrolled on the college needed to depart the varsity or chance dropping their felony standing within the United States.

“Yesterday, the government abruptly revoked that certification without process or cause, to immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders,” the lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Massachusetts stated.

“This revocation is a blatant violation of the First Amendment, the Due Process Clause, and the Administrative Procedure Act,” the go well with says.

“It is the latest act by the government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the government’s demands to control Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the “ideology” of its faculty and students.”

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