The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday revoked Harvard University’s ability to enroll foreign students, prompting the school to immediately file a lawsuit on Friday. Within just hours, like clockwork, a far-left district judge blocked DHS’s action.
U.S. District Court Judge Allison D. Burroughs, an appointee of former President Barack Obama serving in Massachusetts, wrote in a two-page motion granting a temporary restraining order that Harvard “will sustain immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”
Burroughs set a hearing for May 29 to consider DHS’s revocation of its Student and Exchange Visitor Program (SEVP) certification. DHS not only withdrew Harvard’s authorization to enroll new foreign students but also indicated that foreign students who are currently enrolled (more than 27 percent of its current student population) will…
