New ban on Harvard's foreign students blocked

President Trump's latest attempt to prevent Harvard University from enrolling a quarter of its students, who account for much of its research and scholarship, has been blocked by a temporary restraining order issued by Judge Allison Burroughs.

Harvard filed a legal challenge the next day, asking for a judge to block Trump's order and calling it illegal retaliation for the school's rejection of White House demands. The university said the president was attempting an end-run around a previous court order. A few hours later, US District Judge Allison Burroughs in Boston issued a temporary restraining order against the proclamation. Harvard, she said, had demonstrated it would sustain immediate and irreparable injury before she would have an opportunity to hear from the parties in the lawsuit.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security revoked Harvard's certification to host foreign students and issue paperwork to them for their visas, only to have Burroughs block the action temporarily. Trump's order this week invoked a different legal authority.

If Trump's measure were to survive this court challenge, it would block thousands of students who are scheduled to come to Harvard's campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for the summer and fall terms.

Harvard has attracted a growing number of the brightest minds from around the world. International enrollment has grown from 11 percent of the student body three decades ago to 26 percent today.

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