Harvard Has Strong Chance To Prevail Over Trump In Immigration Lawsuit

Hopefully, will lead to another defeat for the Trump administration’s self-harming policies:

Harvard University has a strong chance to prevail in its immigration battle with the Trump administration over the right to enroll international students. After Harvard refused the Trump administration’s demands for the federal government to take over the university’s hiring, admissions and governance policies, the Department of Homeland Security removed the school’s certification to admit international students. The high-profile action against Harvard came as the Trump administration’s nominee for director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services said he would eliminate Optional Practical Training and STEM OPT, another measure educators warn could cause international student enrollment at U.S. universities to plummet.

The Trump Administration’s Immigration Decision On International Students

On May 22, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sent a letterto Harvard: “I am writing to inform you that effective immediately, Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program [SEVP] certification is revoked.”

Without the certification, a school cannot enroll international students.

Enacted after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the SEVP rules and certification process were intended to encourage schools to report when students dropped out or no longer maintained a required course load and to remove fraudulent or illegitimate schools. The rules were never intended to be used to punish universities for not complying with unrelated demands by ending their ability to enroll international students….

The Wall Street Journal asked, “Is Trump Trying To Destroy Harvard?” in a recent editorial. “The Trump Administration has frozen billions in federal grants to Harvard University, threatened its tax-exempt status and sought to dictate its curriculum and hiring,” wrote the Journal. “Now the government seems bent on destroying the school for the offense of fighting back. And for what purpose? That’s how we read the Department of Homeland Security’s move Thursday to bar foreign students from attending the world-renowned institution.”

The editorial labeled the move against international students, a quarter of Harvard’s student body, “whose futures are suddenly in disarray,” to be “a short-sighted attack on one of America’s great competitive strengths: Its ability to attract the world’s best and brightest.”…

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