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Visas revoked for students at universities in Southern states amid crackdown

Student visas for student visas, and in a separate procedure, have spread to students from a system that follows foreign scientists, to the south.

Colleges and public and private universities stated through the sun belt that at least a few of their students had their place as a science that we welcomed, they were canceled or changed in another way.

Some university representatives said that the institutions discovered that some of their students had been canceled or changed the state of immigration by verifying the student and stock visitors information system (SEVIS), which is a federal tracking system for exchange visitors.

Diane Fernandez, a spokeswoman for the Florida International University, said that 18 foreign students in the institution have been canceled.

Megan Lacey, a spokeswoman for Texas A and MN, said 23 international students have been terminated in Sevis. “Ending the SEVIS registry mainly ends the legal status of the individual in the country,” Lasi said via email.

A spokesman for “other institutions with foreign students who suffered from changes in their follow -up or put them in New Mexico, where nine visas scientists were canceled. North Carolina University, where their visas were terminated, according to Carolina graduates review; A spokesman for the state of Tennessee said that the case of six other students has changed in the federal immigration database. And Rice University in Houston, where student visas were canceled for three modern students and graduates.

The University of Texas in Austin only said that “multiple” foreign students have changed if their migration in recent days, according to NBC, the subsidiary company Couscine from Austin.

Schools have not cited a specific reason for changing student migration.

The recent developments come at a time when the administration of President Donald Trump has sought to cancel the visas of hundreds of university and university scholars. Last month, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio estimated that 300 foreign and university university students were canceled.

The cancellation policy gained attention after March 8, when high studies from Columbia University that helped lead student protests for the year 2024 against Israel’s actions in Gaza, which lived on the campus with his wife He was arrested outside his home by immigration and customs enforcement agents Who said that a student’s visa has been canceled, according to the wife’s agency, Nour Abdel -Ala.

One of his lawyers, Amy Jarir, said that I told ICE agents that Khalil was always residing in a green card, but they took him away, and according to his team, his team had never been arrested.

Friday, judge Ruling on the Trump administration can deport Khalil.

Khalil’s arrest and his continuous detention in a federal facility in Louisiana has become a Celebrity, as demonstrators all over the country come out of what they are arguing, which is the lack of a clear intention by the Trump administration to silence the freedom of expression that he does not die.

The Trump administration was steadfast in its campaign against the campus demonstrators who criticize Israel and its war against Hamas militants in the aftermath of October 7, 2023, an attack on Israel, where 1,200 people and about 250 hostages were killed, according to Israeli advantages.

A lot of war occurred in Gaza, which was killed by Israel, civilians and huge numbers, as Palestinian health officials estimated that 50,500 people were killed there.

The Trump administration said it has a authority to deport Khalil because he “led activities to Hamas, a dedicated terrorist organization.” However, his lawyers argued that there is no evidence that Khalil provided any kind of support to terrorist groups.

Rubio also supported the deportation of Khalil in a letter cited a mysterious judgment Immigration and Nationality Law From 1952, which allows the Foreign Minister alone to “determine personally” whether the immigrant should remain in the country.

A migration judge in Louisiana said on Friday that the interpretation of Rubio was everything he needed to see and judge that Khalil He can It is deported. He has until April 23 to provide relief. At the same time, he challenges the basis of his arrest in the Federal Court of New Jersey.

Although the government’s arguments against the presence of Khalil have expanded to include reasons that were not presented in the beginning, including the alleged failure to detect material information about his residence request, the White House has increasingly targeted foreign students born abroad and whose main violation seems to be activity.

“Every time I find one of these crazy people, I remove their visas,” Rubio He said in Guyana last month.

revision (April 13, 2025 12:41 am EST time): A previous version of this article was made by changing the migration of 23 students in Texas A and M. Students have finished their records in the visitor information system for students, instead of canceling their student visas. Previous version also identifying a spokesman for Texas A & M. Megan Lasi spokesman, not Megan Bennett.

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