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A federal judge in Boston said she will issue a preliminary injunction Thursday to block the Trump administration\u2019s directive to strip Harvard University of its ability to admit international students.<\/p>\n

Judge Allison Burroughs issued the ruling from the bench after an emergency hearing on the administration’s move, which upended the lives of the 27 percent of Harvard\u2019s student body that is made up of foreign students.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to maintain the status quo,\u201d Burroughs said from the bench, according to<\/a> CNN.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Harvard quickly sued the administration last week after the directive was given by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which also ordered current international students<\/a> at Harvard to transfer to other schools or risk losing their visas.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the\u00a0Chinese Communist Party\u00a0on its campus,\u201d DHS Secretary Kristi Noem said.\u00a0\u201cIt is a privilege, not a right, for universities to enroll foreign students and benefit from their higher tuition payments to help pad their multibillion-dollar endowments. \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

In a court filing Wednesday, Maureen Martin, the university\u2019s director of immigration services, detailed a long list of consequences<\/a> the directive had on Harvard in the week since it was announced. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Some international students are looking to transfer due to the order, others are declining offers to Harvard, those with Harvard visas are getting extra screening at airports, and other countries are looking to recruit students away from Harvard, she said. \u00a0<\/p>\n

Before the hearing, the Trump administration said it would give Harvard 30 days to hand over certain information before implementing its directive, but the judge still chose to put her injunction in place.<\/p>\n

Burroughs told the lawyers for Harvard and the Trump administration to work out an agreement to keep the student visa program in place, CNN reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt doesn\u2019t need to be draconian, but I want to make sure it\u2019s worded in such a way that nothing changes,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The ruling comes amid a heated battle between Harvard and President Trump, who has also targeted its federal funding and called for its tax-exempt status to be revoked.<\/p>\n

Trump has listed a variety of reasons for targeting student visas, including accusations of antisemitism and claims that foreign-born students are taking away slots from their American counterparts.<\/p>\n

Harvard has refused to change its hiring and admissions policies or eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion programs at the demand of the administration, and has seen billions of dollars in funding frozen and multiple federal agency investigations launched against it.<\/p>\n

The administration and Harvard are locked in another lawsuit after the school challenged the first $3 billion in federal funding taken away. The next hearing for that case is in July.<\/p>\n

Updated at 2:19 p.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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