Federal judge blocks Trump effort to keep Harvard from hosting international students

  the Boston Globe

A federal judge on Friday blocked the Trump administration’s efforts to keep Harvard University from hosting international students.

An order from US District Judge Allison Burroughs preserves the ability of Harvard to host foreign students while the case is decided. It marks another victory for the Ivy League school as it challenges multiple government sanctions amid a battle with the White House.

Harvard sued the Department of Homeland Security in May after the agency withdrew the school’s certification to host foreign students and issue paperwork for their visas. The action would have forced Harvard’s roughly 7,000 foreign students to transfer or risk being in the US illegally. New foreign students would have been barred from coming to Harvard.