Anxiety in the US College’s towns when foreign students deported

Over the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched the sequence of events repeated in their social media channels: simple closure agents that perform without prior proclamation and exported students in unmatched cars at the detention center.

Those who are taken into the detention of high -profile detentions of students who were made on the video did not face criminal liability, and instead appeared to participate in the Protestine protests on the college campus.

Trump administration has repeatedly stated that visas are a “privilege” and can be canceled at any time A wide range of reasons.

But the repression looks much wider than originally thought when more than 1000 foreign students or recent college graduates across the United States, who have now been canceled or changed by legal status, according to an Inside ED, online news site.

For many, the exact reasons are unknown, and universities have often learned about changes only when checking the state administration database, which enters the status of foreign students’ visa status.

The combination of targeted detentions and broadcasts reports left campuses on the outskirts: from the largest state universities to the elite ivy league, the BBC students and teachers have informed.

“I could be the next,” said one visa student who visits Georgetown University, who wrote articles about Israel and war in Gaza.

He began to carry the map in his pocket, which lists his constitutional rights when he is stopped by law enforcement.

Another student in Texas said he was afraid to leave his apartment, even to buy products.

And in some colleges, the departments get when researchers abroad refuse to return to the US.

Most students who have asked for anonymity, from the fears that the availability of their names in the media can make them goals.

BBC has contacted Department of Education For comment.

Reasons Visa cancellations are different. In some cases, the conviction is a factor. Other cases have been reportedly included in minor legal violations such as speed management. But “a lot” of the purposeful participated in the protests, said Secretary of State Mark Rubio himself.

This is part of a Wider push of the white house To hack the participants of the rally, about which officials say they have created a dangerous environment for Jewish students on many towns. They also accuse the demonstrators of expressing support for the officially appointed Hamas terrorist group.

“Every time I find one of these crazy, I take their visas,” Rubio told reporters in late March. “We do it every day.”

Civil groups protested against detentions and are sent to deportation of student demonstrators as a violation of constitutional rights. And the students themselves dismiss Hamas’s associations, saying that they are aimed at a political speech about the war and the US support for Israel.

In Georgetown, the signs that read “protect our students” were brought to the door of the bathroom stalls, adding a sense of gloom to the trees of cherries and tulips that usually note the arrival of spring to campus.

Doctoral studies from university Badar Khan SuriIn March, he was seized by federal agents at the Virginia House. The Internal Security Department has accused the conflict resolution to “promote anti -Semitism in social media” and the availability of “a famous terrorist”.

It was a clear appeal to the Palestinian father of his wife, born in the US, former advisor to the murdered leader Hamas Ismail Hanya.

Mr Suri’s lawyers say he only met the father-in-law several times and aimed at his wife’s identity.

His detention was followed by the organizer of the Colombian University protest Mahmoud KhalilA permanent resident arrested at home in New York but now awaits deportation from the object in Louisiana.

Postgraduate University Tufts BelieveHe was co -authored by the student newspaper about gas and was detained in Massachusetts, also in Louisiana.

Last Monday, Mohsen MahdaviAnother Colombian student was detained in Vermon when he attended interviews to receive US citizenship. Like Mr. Khalil, he has a green card, not a student visa.

“Based on the detentions we see, I think there is an opportunity for anyone who was open about Palestine,” said the student Georgetovna, who knew Mr. Suri.

The White House says He follows those who participated in events that “control the counter” to the US national interests. In the case of D -Khalil, officials referred to the 1952 law, which allows the government to order anyone to deport if their presence in the country can create adverse consequences for the US foreign policy.

In a report on the X Colombian Jewish Association of graduates, Mr Khalil’s arrest, calling him “chaos” at the university.

The poll suggests that immigration is a problem when President Trump enjoys some of the highest approval ratings, and recent Riters and AP-Norc polls believe that about half of adults in the US approve of actions in the field, several points higher than the total rating.

Universities are also aimed at the institutional level. This week’s White House Operational Group Fighting Anti -Semitism has frozen more than $ 2 billion to finance Harvard UniversityAfter the university refused to agree to the list of requirements that they said it would “surrender its independence.”

Trump’s representatives said that if Harvard does not fulfill the request for information about certain student stagger, it will cease to provide visas to foreign students who want to study there.

Professor Georgetovna Nadri Hashemi said he believed that the main goal of the government is to “silence the disagreement”, intimidating future protesters.

Georgetown’s student says he asked his parents not to fly from India to the US to see how he graduated in a Master’s Degree in just a few weeks. He is still not sure whether he will even attend the ceremony.

In addition to the daily checkout check to find out if it is among the hundreds that have recently been recalled, he also prepared for the possibility of sudden arrest.

“I cleaned my chats in messaging supplements and I learned how to quickly lock my phone in SOS mode,” he said.

Georgetovna’s professors even started offering spare numbers to students who are worried about visiting immigration agents at their residences, Prof. said.

“This is part of the injury I think that students face,” he said.

Campus Tafs, outside Boston, Massachusetts, students are waiting to find out what is happening to Ms. Osturka, who was detained near her home.

Video Its confused and trembling with fear when she is intercepted by agents aimed at celebrating Ramadan’s dinner. Last year, it co -an operative Red, which supports the boycott, depriving and sanctions (BDS) against Israel.

A student -dollar student Tufts Anteri Mejr told the BBC that the actions had a “cooling effect” and that foreign students she knows who left the country to visit at home or attend conferences are now afraid to return.

“There are students who work remotely because they are afraid they can’t return to the country,” he said.

At the University of Texas, rumors about immigration and customs bodies (ICE) were horrified on the campus.

“I’m afraid I’m going out. I’m afraid to come to school. I’m afraid to go shopping,” the master of the master said there.

“I am afraid that when I go, agents are addressed to the incognito’s clothes and simple disguise,” he continued.

Despite the fact that he was the owner of the green map and did not play a role in the pro -Plestine protests on the campus, he says he is still in “crippled anxiety” because he wrote things that treat the president.

“How far does this administration experience the history of immigrants?” he asked. “What if I said something and don’t know.”