Trump administration gives Harvard 30 days to contest foreign student ban

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The Trump medication is giving Harvard University 30 days to contention its efforts to efficaciously extremity overseas pupil enrollment astatine the institution, according to a announcement from the Department of Homeland Security connected Thursday.

The announcement to the schoolhouse said Harvard had 30 days to supply grounds to rebut the administration's effort to extremity Harvard's usage of the Student Exchange and Visitor Program. 

A national justice is listening to arguments connected Thursday astir whether to assistance Harvard University a preliminary injunction arsenic the Trump medication seeks to restrict overseas students from attending. 

DHS has said existing overseas students at Harvard indispensable transportation oregon suffer their ineligible presumption successful the U.S. Attorneys for Harvard are making their lawsuit successful national tribunal successful Massachusetts, arsenic the Trump medication targets Harvard's national backing and students. 

The Ivy League institution's commencement ceremony is besides being held connected Thursday. Harvard's president, Alan Garber, received a lasting ovation and an exuberant circular of applause arsenic helium took the podium. 

"You, you are the anticipation of this institution, embodied," Garber told the graduates Thursday morning. "Living impervious that our ngo changes not lone the lives of individuals, but besides the trajectories of the communities that you volition join, service and lead. May you transportation the champion of what Harvard is and does into the satellite that awaits you." 

Kathryn Watson

Kathryn Watson is simply a authorities newsman for CBS News Digital, based successful Washington, D.C.

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