Harvard University is suing the Trump administration for the ban on registration of foreign students

Harvard University is suing the Trump administration after canceling the university’s ability to register international students, and the escalation of the conflict between the White House and one of the most prestigious institutions in America.

In the lawsuit filed in Boston, the university described the administration’s actions as a “flagrant violation” of the law.

It comes a day after officials of the Ministry of Internal Security (DHS) said Harvard will cancel the student visa programs.

The Trump administration says Harvard has not done enough to fight anti -Semitism and change employment and acceptance practices – allegations that the university has severely denied.

There are about 6800 international students at Harvard University, and they make up more than 27 % of its records this year.

“With a stroke of the pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of the Student Student Authority at Harvard University, and international students who contribute greatly to the university and its mission,” Harvard said in the lawsuit.

The university requests an order from the court to stop a move taken by the Ministry of National Security on Thursday to cancel Harvard’s access to the visitors program for students and exchange – a government database that runs foreign students.

“We condemn this illegal and unjustified work,” Alan Garper, President of Harvard University said in a letter.

He wrote: “The cancellation of a series of governmental measures continues to take revenge on Harvard University to refuse to surrender our academic independence and submit to the illegal federal government to control our curricula, our faculty, and our student body.”

In response, the White House’s deputy secretary at the House of the House said: “If Harvard University is interested in this amount of interest in ending the scourge of anti -American, anti -Semitism, and supporters of terrorism on the campus, they will not be in this position to start.

“Harvard must spend their time and resources to create a safe environment for the university campus instead of filing trivial cases,” Jackson said in a statement.

Harvard relies heavily on money that comes from international students who make up nearly a third of the Student Pure. Many of them pay full tuition while local students can access assistance such as scholarships and loans.

For example, the tuition fees for a year at the Harvard University Law Faculty cost $ 80,760 (60,758 pounds). With housing, food, insurance and other expenses, students can expect to pay about $ 120,000 (90,192 pounds) for this year.

The Trump administration was aimed at Harvard and other elite institutions, and not only the argument that they must do more to pressure the activists supporting the Palestinians, but also claim that they distinguish against the conservative views.

The Trump administration has launched investigations into dozens of universities throughout the countries, and concessions waived from other major American institutions such as the University of Colombia in New York.

In April, and The White House froze $ 2.2 billion (1.7 billion pounds) in Harvard’s federal financingAnd Trump threatened to remove the state of tax exemption at the university, which is a record designation for American educational institutions.

Funding for funding for financing Earlier in the Harvard University case, the courts are also required to stop the actions of the administration.

Harvard University, one of the eight universities of the Ivy League elite, is located outside Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

While Harvard University leaders have made concessions – including the leaders of their center’s rejection of Middle East studies, who have been criticized for their failure to represent Israeli perspectives – the recent lawsuit indicates that the university is ready to fight the Trump administration in the court.

The university has recruited many prominent Republican lawyers in its battle, including a Trump and Robert Hour advisor, a former special advisor who investigated Joe Biden’s retaining classified documents.

Foreign students who are currently attending Harvard She expressed concern that the row Between their institutions, it can force them to return home.

Chinese student Cat Sheh, in her second year on STEM, told the BBC that she is “in shock.”

“I almost forgot (the previous threat to the ban) and then the announcement of Thursday suddenly came,” she said.

With reports from Bernd Dibsmann at the White House