Harvard challenges Trump's efforts to block US entry for foreign students
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Harvard University has expanded its lawsuit against President Trump's administration to challenge a new executive order targeting its international students. The suit contends that the restrictions on foreign students violate both the rights of the university and its students. Trump's order portrays international students as detrimental to U.S. interests, which Harvard refutes as a personal vendetta rather than a protective measure. The university's legal action seeks to broaden a temporary restraining order already in place against such restrictive measures.
The President's actions thus are not undertaken to protect the interests of the United States, but instead to pursue a government vendetta against Harvard.
Harvard's more than 7,000 F-1 and J-1 visa holders and their dependents have become pawns in the government's escalating campaign of retaliation.
Harvard dismissed Trump's argument as the latest salvo in his months-long campaign to harm the school, alleging it violates the rights of students.
The amended complaint requests US District Judge Allison Burroughs to extend her temporary restraining order to include Trump's latest actions against international students.
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