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At least 147 international students have suddenly stripped their ability to stay in the United States in recent days, according to media reports and reports, and they calm the fear between students and confusion in falling schools to help students face detention and possible deportation.
The moves targeted students in a wide range of universities, from private institutions such as Harvard and Stanford to the two publics such as the University of Texas at the University of Austin and Minnesota. The University of California had dozens of cases reported on its campus.
Many immigration lawyers told the New York Times that they started receiving feverish email messages and communications at the end of last week from students who were notified by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs or their universities that their visas or conditions have been terminated without clear justifications.
Criminal condemnation has always been at risk of losing their status, but participating in political procedures and committing traffic violations was rarely martyred as justifications.
In some cases, immigration employees arrested international students related to their involvement in pro -Palestinians. In other cases, students committed legal violations, such as driving at the maximum speed or drunk, often years ago, many immigration lawyers said in the interviews.
But lawyers said that the Trump administration often did not give any reason at all, leaving them to guess the reason for targeting students.
“This increases the usual practices by the government,” said Myriam Fellabid, CEO of Presidents Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, which represents more than 570 colleges and universities throughout the country. “They end the cases of students in a way that they have not done before and almost any explanation and a little resort to correcting or appeals by the institution or students.”
Late last month, Marco Rubio, Minister of Foreign Affairs, ordered diplomats to search for social media publications for some visa applicants to stay away from the country suspected of criticizing the United States and Israel.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Internal Security did not immediately respond to the messages seeking to comment.
The recent movements add more anxiety to a risky environment already to international students and scientists in the United States. International education defenders are concerned that such movements will cool down the ability of American schools to attract foreign students.
Last month, Mahmoud Khalil, a graduate student at the University of Colombia, was arrested recently participating in the pro -Palestinian activity during the campus protests last year, in his apartment and sent to Louisiana for his potential deportation, despite being a permanent resident. Soon after, Romisa Ozturk, a student of Tafs University from Türkiye, was detained by masked agents from the United States for Immigration and Customs, while she was on her way to meet friends. Mrs. Ozturk, who wrote an article in support of the Palestinians, was also transferred to Louisiana.
The moves aimed at international students are appropriate to the broader policy agenda of the Trump administration of reducing the number of immigrants, both legal and undocumented, and forcing universities to take strict measures on what the president says is anti -Semitism on the campus.
The United States issued more than 400,000 students in 2024.
Lawyers said that some of the students who recently targeted had committed crimes such as speed or driving while poisoning them. They said that such crimes did not usually rise to deportation.
Without a visa, the international student becomes uncomfortable, and he should leave the United States or risk detention and put it in deportation procedures. Many lawyers said that they have agents who chose to leave the country for fear of being arrested by ICE agents, the Internal Security Agency accused of implementing Mr. Trump’s pledge to collectively deport.
Some affected students are graduate students who have doctoral theses that are supposed to defend next month. Others of university students. Others still have completed their studies and work in the United States, as part of a special program that allows new international graduates to stay in the country for up to three years if it is working.
“This is completely unprecedented,” said Fuji Whitenburg, a lawyer for immigration in Calabasas, California, who has been practicing law for 20 years. “I haven’t seen anything close to this.”
She added: “A brush with the application of the law did not necessarily arrest or condemn everything that is required.”
Lady Weutburg said that one of her clients was an Indian citizen who had the only identity document when he was studying in the United States for more than a decade. When applying for a second student visa recently, he revealed the charge of the American consulate authorities in his home country. They ultimately gave him a visa to follow more studies in the United States.
Harvard advised international students last week During an online symposium to reconsider travel abroad, according to Harvard Crimson newspaper, the Student Newspaper. The employees also warned the students that pro -Palestinians would be fraught with risks.
During the web symposium, Jason Coral, the lawyer, said that there appears to be a change from President Trump’s first mandate, according to the Qarmazi newspaper. “The difference is that we have seen positions that seem that people’s visas are simply canceled based on their speech or protests,” he said.
AlertA coalition of national media media institutions urged the media last week to “reduce harm”, pointing to the threats of the student’s speech.
On Monday, a letter said to Michael Drake, President of the University of California, and others by the Board of Directors of the University of California College that the university should help students who were targeted, on the pretext that a “moral commitment” to protect the legal rights of students and scientists.
The message, in which the University Council participated in the Federation of Faculty and Library Secretaries, called on the university to allow students to deport or arrest students to continue their programs from remoteness, to continue providing salaries, salaries and collections and assisting students in the courts.
Many students filed a lawsuit against the government to challenge their termination, and the lawsuits are expected to accumulate.
Stacy Tolchin, the immigration lawyer in Pasadina, California, presented two prayers in the Federal Court of Los Angeles on Saturday, and said she would make more this week.
In one case, the American Civil Liberties Union represents a Chinese PhD student at the Dartmath College studying computer science. According to a complaint filed on April 4, the student, Xiaotian Liu, did not commit any crimes or participated in any protests.
The college told the student in an email that this is “not a standard or normal procedure”, according to the lawsuit, which was submitted at the Federal Court in New Hampshire.
The lawsuit said: “Xiawanan’s dream of completing a doctorate program and obtaining a doctorate at Dartmouth College is now in great danger.”
