Harvard sues Trump admin for international registration ban from students

Harvard University On Friday a suit ask a judge to reverse this Trump AdministrationThe ban on the private school was called up International students for his alleged tolerance towards “anti -American, terrorist Agitators “on campus.

The suit came a day after Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard’s ability to register foreign students as part of the F-1 visa program at the behest Secretary Kristi.

DHS said Harvard was excluded from the enrollment of future international students, and that current foreign students who are enrolled at the school had to leave or risk school to lose their legal status in the United States.

The ban concerns more than 7,000 current Visa owners who study in Harvard, which has been in the crosshair of the Trump administration for months. president Donald Trump Harvard said last month that Harvard should lose his tax exemption status.

“With the blow of a pen, the government tried to extinguish a quarter of Harvard’s student, international students who contribute significantly to the university and their mission” submitted in the lawsuit in US district court in Massachusetts said.

“The certification of Harvard is essential for each of the thousands of international students from Harvard in order to remain lawful in this country, while they complete the courses, receive degrees and continue critical research,” says the lawsuit.

The lawsuit described the revocation as “obvious violation of the first change” and the proper procedural clause of the US constitution.

The school also said that it was the “latest law of the government in clear retaliation for Harvard, who exercised its first amendments to control the government’s demands, Harvard’s governance, curriculum and the” ideology “of its faculty and students.”

DHS on Thursday said it revoked Harvard’s Student and exchange visitor program Certification because the leadership of the Ivy League School “created one Uncertain campus environment Through the permission of anti -American, proterrorist agitators, people, including many Jewish students, bothering and attacking it physically and hindering his once nervous learning environment in other ways. “

Harvard’s lawsuit found that the Trump government campaign took place days before the conclusion.

“Without his international students, Harvard is not Harvard,” says the complaint.

Harvard President Alan Garber, in A letter to the school community On Friday: “We condemn this illegal and unjustified action” by the Trump administration.

“The government claimed that its destructive action
Harvard’s failure to comply with inquiries about information from the US Ministry of Homeland Security, ”wrote Garber.

“In fact, Harvard replied to the legally required inquiries from the department.”

The lawsuit states that in a letter to Harvard’s international office in a letter dated April 16, information about every student visum holder in Harvards was requested 13 schools within 10 working days and that Harvard accused “of not having to condemn anti-Semitism”.

The lawsuit states that Harvard created the requested information on April 30 and provided additional information on May 14th.

“But on May 22, 2025, DHS kept the answers from Harvard as” insufficient ” – without explaining why or an ordinance with which Harvard was not adhered to – and the SEVP certification of Harvard” immediately “effective”, it said in the complaint.

In the lawsuit it is found that the Task Force of Trump management has conditioned the continued issue of “numerous federal services” to Harvard, including billions of dollars for grants and other funds “to combat anti-Semitism in the past few weeks and months.

“When Harvard refused to meet these demands on April 14, 2025, the government’s retaliation was quickly,” said the lawsuit.

“Hours later, the government freely frees more than $ 2.2 billion in federal financing that are of crucial importance for the support of the ongoing latest research in Harvard.”

In his letter on Friday, Harvard President Garber spoke to international students and scientists who were affected by the ban on registering.

“Know that you are important members of our community,” wrote Garber. “You are our classmates and friends, our colleagues and mentors, our partners in the work of this great institution.”

“We will support you if we do our best to ensure that Harvard remains open to the world.”