Four international students at the University of Michigan have had their visas revoked by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, according to a university spokesperson.
The university learned of the revocations on Friday, the same day Central Michigan University announced that several current and former international students had their visas and their right to remain in the U.S. legally revoked.
“Administrators have contacted these students to advise them of potential consequences of this action,” Director of Public Affairs Kay Jarvis said Sunday.
She did not provide any additional information about the students or how the revocations were discovered.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to an inquiry about why the students’ legal residency had been revoked.
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Last month, federal officials detained several international students who had been involved in protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, notably Mahmoud Khalil, who played a prominent role in protests at Columbia University, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student who was arrested on the street in a Boston suburb.
But the Trump administration seems to have expanded its efforts over the past two weeks.
Officials from the University of Texas, the University of Oregon, Cornell University, Arizona State University, the University of Colorado and other schools around the country say hundreds of international students have had their legal residency status revoked, often without notice.
In some cases, the justifications were minor legal infractions. In other cases, the government provided the schools with no clear reason at all.
“We’re doing them every day,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters late last month.
“They’re visitors to the country,” he added, “If they’re taking activities that are counter to our foreign – to our national interest, to our foreign policy, we’ll revoke the visa.”
At the University of Michigan, international students made up more than 16% of the student body last fall.
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