US judge tilts admission stop for foreign students in Harvard-Diepresse.com
The US government withdrawn the right to accept foreign students from the renowned university. The government prevents an injunction.
A federal judge has the US government’s project, to exclude foreign students from the Harvard elite universityinitially pushed a stop. A preliminary injunction imposed by the judge prevents the government from banning the university of continuing to accept students from abroad through a special federal program.
The university had filed a lawsuit against the step of the US government in front of a federal court just a few hours before the judge’s decision. In it, she accused the government of US President Donald Trump to put pressure on the university with an illegal retaliation measure. The judge’s decision should only be the first step in a long legal dispute. It is not a final judgment.
Every fourth student comes from abroad
Judge Allison D. Burroughs came to the conclusion that the elite university has demonstrated that the government’s order meant an « immediate and irreparable damage » for Harvard. This emerges from the disposal. Burroughs immediately arranged a hearing after submitting the lawsuit.
It was not completely clear at first what should happen to Harvard that has already been registered. Noem said they had to « change or they lose their legal status ». Every fourth student from abroad is currently in Harvard.
30 students from Austria
Almost 30 Harvard students come from Austria, the vast majority of foreigners at the US Elite University come from China (almost 1,400), Canada (around 750), India (580), South Korea and Great Britain (260 each).
The German Research Minister Dorothee Bär (CSU) described the decision of the US government on the sidelines of a meeting of EU Science Minister in Brussels as « very, very bad ». « These are developments that make us very concerned, » said Science Minister Eva-Maria Holzleitner (SPÖ). Austria reacts with a perspective package for professors, professors, researchers, but also for students, « who are at risk of no longer being able to complete their studies in their home country, » says Holzleiter, « we are putting up with a scholarship program for 50 students ».
