A Federal Judge of Boston said on Thursday that he plans to issue a preliminary order that blocks the Trump administration to revoke the Harvard University certification to host foreign students.
Judge Allison D. Burroughs, who was appointed by former president Barack Obama – Last week he already granted Harvard University a temporary containment order, preventing the Government from revocation of the certification of the IVY League School in the student and exchange visitors program. The program allows university to host international students with F-1 or J-1 visas to study in the United States
Thursday’s High Court focused on the National Security Department (DHS), which doubled on a warning Wednesday night with the intention of the administration to withdraw Harvard’s certification.
Burroughs said that the temporary containment order would remain at the moment while the two parties confer and have a preliminary order proposed order or the orders proposed by the judge.
After then, Burroughs said it would emit a final preliminary order, but the “status quo” will remain as the process continues.
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The anti-Israel protesters were seen on the Harvard campus last month. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
On Wednesday, lawyers from the Department of Justice presented a letter to the Dam by national security research and the acting director of immigration and customs of the United States, Todd Lyons, aimed at Harvard’s leadership. Lyons listed several “compliance problems”, quoting the university’s alleged failure to follow the information requirements, alleged failure to “maintain an environment of the Campus free of violence and anti -Semitism” and “practices with foreign entities that raise national security problems”.
The letter says that a joint government working group found that Harvard “has not been able to face the discrimination of the race and the anti -Semitic harassment that plagues their campus.” Lyons claims that the evidence obtained by DHS show that “Jewish students on the campus were subject to perverse insults, physical aggression and intimidation, without significant response from Harvard University leadership.”
“Meanwhile, pro-Hamas student groups who promoted anti-Semitism after the October 7 bombings remained recognized and funded,” Lyons wrote.
The letter says that DHS also obtained evidence that “creates serious concerns that Harvard University has coordinated with the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and other adverse foreign entities in national security.”
Since January 2020, Harvard has received $ 151 million from foreign governments, which represented more than 13% of the total number of $ 1.1 billion received from foreign donors during the same period, according to the presentation.
Anti-Israel protesters leave Harvard against Trump administration. (Brett Phelps/The Boston Globe through Getty Images)
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The letter claims that Harvard welcomed and trained members of the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, a “complicated CCP paramilitary group in the Uigur genocide”. Lyons said that the university did so even after the group’s 2020 designation on the specially appointed nationals of the United States treasure, “with the commitments that continue until 2024”.
DHS also stated that researchers at Harvard University “collaborated with China’s academics in projects funded by an Iranian government agent, and associated with Chinese universities related to military advances, including aerospace and optical research, using funds from the United States Department of Defense.” The letter says that Harvard also “associated with individuals linked to the base of China’s defense-industrial defense, including robotics research with military applications.”
“Previous evidence creates serious concerns that Harvard University has collaborated with the PCC and other foreign opponents,” Lyons wrote.
DHS said that Harvard has 30 calendar days to explain why the school certification should not be removed despite the tests mentioned.
Anti-Israel protesters at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., April 25, 2025. (Joseph Prezioso/AFP through Getty Images)
“Providing materially false, fictional or fraudulent information can undergo criminal persecution,” Lyons wrote.
In his demand, Harvard said the revocation would affect more than 7,000 visas holders, more than a quarter of his student body.
According to reports, about 18% of Harvard’s international student population was Chinese, according to reports.
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Harvard’s lawyers said that in the Thursday’s view that international students are “terrified” and “have real real -time damage”.
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