US judge blocks Trump effort to bar Harvard from enrolling foreign students | Education News

A United States judge has issued a temporary restraining order against an effort to prevent Harvard University from enrolling foreign students.

Friday’s ruling comes in response to an emergency petition filed earlier in the day in the federal district court of Boston, Massachusetts.

In that petition, Harvard sought immediate relief after the administration of President Donald Trump barred it from using a federal government system, the Student and Exchange Visitor Program, that is required…