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Presidential Administration Donald Trump faces a new lawsuit claiming that the administration’s threat is to abandon hundreds of millions of federal financing Columbia University is illegal.
The US Teachers Federation has launched a lawsuit with the US Association of Professors on Tuesday, claiming that the Trump administration seeks to “consolidate power over higher education”.
“This action disputes the illegal and unprecedented efforts of the Trump administration over the university autonomy and control the opinion, the Association, the scholarship and the expression of its teachers and students,” the lawsuit said.
“The Trump administration makes Colombian University make their bidding and regulate the speech and expression on the campus, holding the billions of dollars in Congress of Commissioner Federal Funding – a fund responsible for positioning the American University System as a global leader in scientific, medical and technological research continues.
Video shows the arrest of Colombian Anti-Israeli launch Mahmoud Khalila
Anti -Israeli agitators organized camps on the campus of Colombian University. (Getti Image)
The lawsuit goes after Colombia administrators They agreed to accept extensive changes to their policy towards student protests and conduct a review of their research department in the Middle East.
The Trump administration threatened to give up about $ 400 million when the changes were not made.
Presidential Administration Donald Trump threatened the financing of the University of Columbia if it did not reform protest policies. (Fox News / Special Report)
Ivy League School has agreed to ban masks with the purpose of concealing identity, expand 36 police officers on campus with new powers to arrest students and appoint senior vice -blade with extensive powers to observe the Department of the Department The Middle East, South -Asian and African studies, as well as the Palestine Research Center.
The sources familiar with the negotiations reported Fox News that the pleasure of the requirements does not mean that Colombia will receive $ 400 million for financing, but this is just a prerequisite for opening negotiations.
Maria Makiver, Executive Director of the American University Teachers Association (AAUP), spoke at an “emergency” outside the Colombian University goal to protest the recent policy changes on Monday. (Fox)
The lawsuit filed in the South District of New York on Tuesday, calls on Trump’s administration to restore “all grants and contracts at the Colombian University”.
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He also calls on the court to ban Trump administration to further reduce financing, as well as reward the plaintiffs.
Fox News’ Louis Cassian contributed to this report.
