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Judge sides with Harvard against Trump visa block
The Hill ^ | 05/29/25 | Lexi Lonas Cochran

Posted on 05/29/2025 9:29:59 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

A federal judge in Boston on Thursday issued a preliminary injunction to block the Trump administration’s directive to strip Harvard University of its ability to admit international students.

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’s student body that is made up of foreign students.

“I want to maintain the status quo,” Burroughs said from the bench, according to CNN.

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 at Harvard to transfer to other schools or risk losing their visas.

“This administration is holding Harvard accountable for fostering violence, antisemitism, and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus,” DHS head Kristi Noem said. “It 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.

In a court filing on Wednesday, Maureen Martin, the university’s director of immigration services, detailed a long list of consequences the directive had on Harvard in the week since it was announced.

Some international students are looking to transfer, 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 due to the announcement.

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To: wiseprince

She’s as worthless as Sessions.


41 posted on 05/29/2025 11:56:57 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: DiogenesLamp

The Democrats should be proud. Now more than half of Americans despise a judicial system that believes it governs the people. How about a new amendment to the Constitution that demands all judges be elected? I know that won’t help in Blue States, but petitioners will know for sure where to file a grievance.


42 posted on 05/29/2025 11:59:48 AM PDT by Bookshelf
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

Like Johnny Cash says, “you can go on for a long time, but sooner or later G-d will cut you down.”


43 posted on 05/29/2025 12:49:58 PM PDT by Eleutheria5 (Every Goliath has his David. Child in need ofand thhere we CGM system. https://gofund.me/6452dbf1. )
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To: Bookshelf
The judges have been out of control since at least the 1930s when Roosevelt stacked the courts with liberal loons.
44 posted on 05/29/2025 1:34:31 PM PDT by DiogenesLamp (`)
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To: DiogenesLamp; Eleutheria5; GOPJ; Political Junkie Too
Democrat congressman denounces FDR: "A packed jury, a packed court, and a stuffed ballot box are all on the same moral plane. This is more power than a good man should want, or a bad man should have."
45 posted on 05/29/2025 3:00:59 PM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Re-imagine the media!)
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To: Robert A Cook PE
"Nominated by Barack Obama on July 31, 2014, to a seat vacated by Rya Zobel; Confirmed by the Senate on December 16, 2014, and received commission on December 19, 2014."
Need we ask?
No, self-evident.

Need we pray?
Yes, to the Lord
against the demonic onslaught.

46 posted on 05/29/2025 5:36:27 PM PDT by EliRoom8
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To: All

Just end all student visas in that case . A private company doesn’t control who is allowed and not allowed to enter into a sovereign nation.


47 posted on 05/29/2025 7:03:18 PM PDT by escapefromboston (Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

+1.


48 posted on 05/30/2025 7:55:21 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp (`)
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To: wiseprince

{Who controls the visa process? Just deny the visas, no one can do anything about this. Same with tariffs, just charge it on entry. The administration is in charge if Trump just backs them 100%. Constitutional crisis? Who really cares!}

Look, I know the Democrats can do stuff like that, they do it every chance they get, but can a Republican? THAT is the question.


49 posted on 05/31/2025 6:38:51 AM PDT by Segovia
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To: SpaceBar

You are spot on.


50 posted on 05/31/2025 6:40:51 AM PDT by Segovia
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To: AndyJackson
>>“I want to maintain the status quo,”<<

The status quo is no one new in or out.

The "status quo" is muzzards terrorizing Jews on campus.

51 posted on 06/01/2025 7:56:31 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (You show me a RAT, I'll show you a felon.)
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