Harvard is challenging the Trump administration’s decision to prohibit the university from enrolling foreign students, initiating legal action while casting itself as an innocent victim for defying the White House’s demands it end antisemitism on campus and coordination with Chinese Communist Party.

AP reports in a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court in Boston, Harvard said the government’s action violates the First Amendment and will have an “immediate and devastating effect for Harvard and more than 7,000 visa holders.”

“With the stroke of a pen, the government has sought to erase a quarter of Harvard’s student body, international students who contribute significantly to the University and its mission,” Harvard said in its suit, per the AP report. “Without its international student

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