Updated May 29, 2025 at 12:44 PM PDT

A federal judge said that she would issue a preliminary injunction that would allow Harvard to continue enrolling international students — halting, at least for now, the Trump administration's efforts to ban the practice.

Lawyers from Harvard and the Trump administration were in a packed courtroom in Boston on Thursday for a hearing on the administration's attempt to revoke the school's ability to enroll students and scholars on international visas.

The move comes after the same judge, Allison D. Burroughs, granted a temporary restraining order last Friday.

"To me it represents some kind of temporary relief," said Ella Ricketts, a first-year international student at Harvard. She's set to start an internship soon, and had been worried that without a

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