The revocation of the Trump administration of students’ visas for foreign students opposed to the continuous attacks of Israel in Gaza has extended to the south.
Public and private schools and universities throughout Sun Belt have reported that at least some of their students have had their status as revoked welcome academics, with the University of Texas A&M and the International University of Florida publishing even larger numbers.
Texas A&M spokeswoman Megan Bennett said that 23 international students have lost their students’ visas in the institution.
The spokeswoman of the International University of Florida, Dianne Fernández, said the number was 18.
Other institutions that make public the number of revocations include the state of New Mexico (9); The University of North Carolina (6); Middle tennessee state (6); and the University of Rice in Houston (3).
The University of Texas in Austin has only said that “multiple” foreign students have revoked their visas, according to the Austin NBC Kxan affiliate.
The continuous revocations of the administration of President Donald Trump have spread beyond New York City, Ivy League and New England universities to some of the states that Trump won in 2024, including Texas, Florida and North Carolina, although the political implications of his policy are not clear.
Last month, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, estimated that 300 academics from foreign and university universities were revoked by the Trump administration.
The revocation policy caught the attention after March 8, when a former postgraduate degree from Columbia University who helped lead the protests of 2024 students against Israel’s actions in Gaza and who lived on the campus with his wife was arrested outside his home by the immigration and compliance agents of Customs who said that his student visa had been revoked, according to the wife of the wife of the wife of the wife of the wife.
One of his lawyers, Amy Gerer, said Abdalla told ICE Khalil agents that he was a permanent resident with a green card, but took him and, according to his legal team, have not yet produced an arrest warrant.
On Friday, a judge ruled that the Trump administration can deport Khalil.
The arrest of Khalil and the continuous detention in a federal installation in Louisiana have become a cause of Cérebre, with the protesters who advance throughout the country to denounce what they argue that it is a lack of due process and a clear intention of the intention of the Trump administration to silence the freedom of expression with which it does not agree.
The Trump Administration has been firm in its campaign against the demonstrators of the critics of Israel and its war against the Militants of Hamas after the latter, the attack of October 7, 2023 against Israel in which 1,200 people were killed and around 250 hostages, according to Israeli Taltes.
Much of the war has taken place in Gaza, that neighbors Israel, and civilians have been displaced and killed in large quantities, with Palestinian health officials who estimate that 50,500 people have been killed there.
The Trump administration has said that the authority has to deport Khalil because “he directed activities aligned with Hamas, a designated terrorist organization.” However, his lawyers have argued that there is no evidence that Khalil has provided any support for terrorist groups.
Rubio also supported Athlete Khalil in a letter that cited a dark disposition of the immigration and nationality law of 1952 that allows the Secretary of State only to “personally determine” if an immigrant must remain in the country.
An immigration judge in Louisiana said Friday that Rubio’s explanation was all he needed to see and ruled that Khalil can be deported. It has until April 23 to request relief. At the same time, he is challenging the basis of his arrest in a federal court in New Jersey.
Although the government’s arguments against Khalil’s presence have expanded to include reasons that are not initially given, including the alleged breach of material information about its residence application, the White House has been increasingly addressed to students born abroad whose main transgression seems to be activism.
“Every time I find one of these crazy people, I take off my visas,” he said in Guyana last month.
Some university representatives said that the institutions discovered that they were teaching students whose visas had been revoked when verifying the federal visitors information system and exchanging, which may indicate the presence of a student, legal or of another.
Bennett, Texas A&M spokesman, explained by email what has been happening: “A seis registration termination essentially ends the legal status of the individual in the country.”
