"It would be devastating," a former president of Harvard — and frequent critic of the university — said of the government's attempt to prevent Harvard from enrolling foreign students.

Harvard is the first school to sue the administration after a back-and-forth between President Alan Garber and most of Trump's team.

The administration has frozen funding and targeted international students as it presses the university for a stronger response to alleged antisemitism.

For students around the world, an acceptance letter to Harvard University has represented the pinnacle of achievement.

Harvard and the federal government are locked in a battle that boils down to turning over records on international students. But Harvard says it is also about the First Amendment.

Massachusetts Congressman Stephen Lynch is outraged by the Trump administration's effort to ban foreign students. "It will take years, maybe decades to repair the damage that Donald Trump and that group of morons and buffoons is doing to this country each and every day,

Harvard faculty and students told Fox News Digital that revoking federal funds from the Ivy League school could have a negative impact on American innovation and education.