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Judge puts temporary hold on Trump’s ban on Harvard’s foreign students

A US judge has temporarily blocked a proclamation by the president that prevented international students from entering the US to study at the university.

The Widener library during Harvard’s 374th commencement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 29 May 2025. Picture: AFP
The Widener library during Harvard’s 374th commencement in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on 29 May 2025. Picture: AFP
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A US judge on Thursday ordered another block on President Donald Trump’s repeated efforts to ban foreign students from attending Harvard University.

In a court order, US District Judge Allison D. Burroughs blocked Trump’s latest proclamation aiming to bar new Harvard international students from entering the country, saying the university had showed that without a restraining order it risked sustaining “immediate and irreparable injury before there is an opportunity to hear from all parties.”

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