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Judge rules in favour of Harvard University keeping its international students (www.middleeasteye.net)

submitted 7 months ago by geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml to c/progressivepolitics@lemmy.world

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Harvard University on Thursday won a brief reprieve in its fight to continue enrolling international students after a federal judge upheld a block on a governmental order.

US district judge Allison Burroughs ruled to uphold the terms of a temporary restraining order (TRO), which froze the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) revocation of the university’s student and exchange visitor programme (SEVP) certification programme, the process that enables universities to enrol foreigners, and preserved the status of international students.

The news came as Harvard’s Class of 2025 was assembling for commencement exercises. The order grants relief to around 7,000 international students - a quarter of Harvard’s student body - whose lives have been thrown into limbo over the last few weeks.

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[–] ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 7 months ago

Like most of Trump's actions, the chaos is the point and the damage is largely done.

Step 1 is systematic destruction of trust in the US's institutions and rule of law. Step 2 is the public's and other countries' exhaustion and withdrawal from engagement due to that loss of trust. Step 3 is in unfettered dictatorial edict replacing the rule of law.

The only mitigation right now is resistance at a level the US isn't ready for. Entire communities refusing ICE entry or allowing them to arrest the resistors. Or some idealized version of local police arresting ICE thugs for violating local and state ordinances by engaging in unlawful arrest without meeting local due process-analog requirements, for example. That would at least divert ICE's offensive resources to defensive.

But America is chronically ill, local and state police are helping ICE despite being paid and duty-bound to protect local communities and state constitutions, and we're collectively mesmerized by the intentional shock-and-awe strategy.