(Boston) A Federal Boston judge maintained the suspension of the decision of US President Donald Trump on Monday on Monday to ban the United States of new international students at Harvard University in the United States, a shock measure of his offensive against the prestigious establishment.
Harvard was the main target of the affront of the Republican president against part of the American universities, accused by conservatives of promoting anti -Semitism during student movements against the Israeli war in Gaza and of being too liberal.
After deleting some $ 3.2 billion in federal subsidies and contracts, the US government accentuated this offensive at the end of May and early June with measures to ban foreign students in Harvard. The latter represent 27 % of the Elite University workforce, a major source of its income and its influence.
The university, which had refused to bend in the face of the injunctions of the American government, had brought to justice the provisional suspension of the measures aimed at foreign students, which it affirms that they are illegal and unconstitutional.
Federal judge Allison Burroughs extended this suspension for at least a week before being a longer extension, indicates a judicial document.
In documents paid in court, Harvard accuses the United States government of leading “obvious reprisals for the exercise of (its) right to the first amendment (from the American Constitution on freedom of expression)”. It is on the basis of this text that the University rejected “the government’s requests to control its governance, its study program and the” ideology “of its teaching staff and its students,” she also maintains.
