A federal visa repression throughout the United States has left hundreds of international panic students, for fear of deportation after suddenly losing their legal status.
At least 901 students from more than 128 United States and universities.
Defense groups say that hundreds could be affected, and that reports still arrive.
Calls to immigration lawyers have increased.
“We thought it was going to be something unusual,” said Matthew Maiona, an immigration lawyer based in Boston who now received up to six calls a day. “But now it seems that it comes quite fast and furious.”
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Many students say they were blinded.
In most cases, they were informed by email of their universities, not from the government, that their legal status had been revoked.
Some students were told that their input visas were canceled after “criminal record verifications”, although few, if any, were accused of crimes.
Four students from Michigan's universities are now demanding the Donald Trump administration, claiming that their visas were revoked without due process.
“We do not know, and that is the terrifying part,” said Ramis Wadood, an Aclu lawyer who represents the students.
He said one had a parking fine. Another had none at all.
Repression has shocked universities in the United States, from Ivy League schools to state universities and small universities of liberal arts.
In many cases, schools only discovered that the status of the students had been completed after verifying the national security immigration database.
Previously, the changes of state generally occurred after a school notified the Government that a student had retired or abandoned.
Now, the process seems to avoid schools completely.
Some federal courts intervene.
In New Hampshire, a judge granted a restriction order last week to restore the status of a PH.D. student.
Similar orders were issued in Wisconsin and Montana, temporarily protecting students from detention or elimination.
The National Security Department and State Department declined to comment.
The Biden administration has cited national security as a reason to revoke some visas.
Last month, the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, said the government would revoke visas of people who oppose the interests of the United States, including protesters against the Israel War in Gaza and those who face criminal charges.
But many of the affected students say they do not fall into those categories.
International students constitute a large and important part of higher education in the United States.
Approximately 1.1 million enrolled in US institutions last year.
In general, they are not eligible for federal aid and, often, pay full registration, which makes them a critical source of income for schools.
More than half are from India or China, although lawyers say that repression has impacted students around the world.
Some have already left the country.
Others appeal their endings while remaining in legal limbo.
Others are not students at all, but the recent graduates who work in the optional Practical Training Program (OPT), a temporary visa that allows them to work in the US. UU. After completing a title.
Around 242,000 people currently live and work in the USA. In opt.
A student who demands the government is a PH.D. of Georgia Tech. candidate with a job offer of the faculty.
His visa was revoked by a traffic ticket of a car that lent a friend. The rape was dismissed.
“These are children who now, under the Trump administration, realize that their position is fragile,” said Charles Kuck, an immigration lawyer who represents 17 students.
“They have taken advantage of a very vulnerable population. These children do not hide. They are in school.”
At the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, a Chinese doctorate. The student says that he now carries her passport and immigration documents everywhere.
She has no criminal record and has no idea why students like her are being attacked.
“That is the most terrifying part,” he said. “Because you don't know if you are going to be the next person.”
(AP)
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