Harvard sues Trump administration over ban on worldwide scholar enrollment-OxBig News Network

Harvard University on Friday filed a lawsuit in search of to reverse the Trump administration‘s ban on the personal college enrolling international students over its purported tolerance of “anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators” on campus.

The go well with got here a day after the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s potential to enroll overseas college students beneath the F-1 visa program on the behest of Secretary Kristi Noem.

DHS stated Harvard was barred from enrolling future worldwide college students, and that present overseas college students enrolled on the college needed to depart the varsity or threat dropping their authorized standing within the United States.

“Yesterday, the federal government abruptly revoked that certification with out course of or trigger, to rapid and devastating impact for Harvard and greater 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 most recent act by the federal government in clear retaliation for Harvard exercising its First Amendment rights to reject the federal government’s calls for to regulate Harvard’s governance, curriculum, and the ‘ideology’ of its school and college students.”

DHS on Thursday stated it revoked Harvard’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification as a result of the Ivy League college’s management “has created an unsafe campus surroundings by allowing anti-American, pro-terrorist agitators to harass and bodily assault people, together with many Jewish college students, and in any other case hinder its once-venerable studying surroundings.”

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