A federal judge blocks Trump's ban on enrolling international students at Harvard.

WashingtonHarvard responds and once again stands up to the Donald Trump administration. Less than 24 hours after the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced that prohibited the granting of visas and permits to international students who wanted to enroll at the prestigious university, the university has filed a lawsuit against the government over renewed pressure. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem accused Harvard of fomenting "violence and antisemitism and coordinating with the Chinese Communist Party on its campus." Just hours after Harvard filed the lawsuit, a federal judge in Boston blocked the government's decision to suspend international student enrollment at the university.

"We condemn this unlawful and unjustified action," Harvard President Alan M. Garber wrote in a letter to the academic community on Friday. He added: "It jeopardizes the future of thousands of students and researchers across the university and serves as a warning to countless other students at universities and colleges across the country who have come to the United States to pursue their studies and realize their dreams." The suspension of visas for international students not only affects the very foundation of the university, but also represents a significant blow to the university's revenue. Trump, who has already suspended contracts and federal funding for the center, wants to further strangle Harvard to see if it will eventually give in.

Harvard is one of the richest universities in the United States and has an endowment (endowment) of more than $53 billion, a kind of reserve that would allow it to withstand any cuts the Trump administration wants to implement for a long time.

The Trump administration is waging a culture war against some of the country's leading universities, accusing them of allowing "antisemitism" on their campuses. Republicans have long waged a crusade against Ivy League schools (Harvard and Columbia, among others) for their equality, diversity, and equity policies. When the protest encampments against the Gaza war began on campuses, Republicans and conservative groups accused the protesters of being anti-Semitic and used the attacks to target the universities.

This lawsuit is the second Harvard has filed against the Trump administration, after it also took to court last month to address the president's financial pressure to interfere with its academic independence. Last April, the US government suspended $60 million in federal contracts and froze $2.2 billion in federal funding for the university after it refused to yield to the administration's demands to influence the academic curriculum. Accusing it of "anti-Semitism," Trump demanded that the school shut down all diversity, equity, and inclusion programs and review those areas that have "blatant evidence of anti-Semitism." Regarding this last demand, he also urged the prestigious university to subject certain departments and programs to an external audit.