According to school officials, university statements and correspondence reported by Associated Press, about 1,024 international students in American colleges and universities have canceled their visas or ended their legal status since the end of March.
Foreign students living in the US constantly look at agents in blue plain cloth and take students to centers in custody, and it is causing great concern for them.
Many students have sued the Homeland Security Department (DHS), arguing that DHS has failed to justify why they are eliminating their legal status.
In addition, the Trump administration has often stated that visa is a “privilege” and can be canceled at any time for several reasons. US State Secretary Marco Rubio has said, “Why is it here: I have called it everywhere, and I would say it again. If you apply for a student visa to come to the United States and you say that you are not only coming to study, but also to participate in universities that participate in universities, harassed students, carrying buildings, and we are not causing you.”
BBC Talked to students and faculties of public universities and Ivy league institutions and claim that the situation has made them feel on the shore.
“I can be ahead,” said a student visa-holder, who has written articles about war in Gaza. He takes a card with him, which is stopped by law enforcement, just a list of constitutional rights.
While another said that he is very afraid of going out, even to buy groceries.
The cancellation of the visa can lead to a lot of factors from criminal records to driving on speed range, however, many of the people targeted were involved in the Palestinian protests, even the state’s secretary Maro Rubio.
Officials say such protesters created an unsafe environment for Jewish students, and supported Hamas, a terrorist organization.
Rubio told reporters at the end of March, “Every time I get one of these lunes, I take their visa. We do it every day”, Rubio told reporters at the end of March.
Not only students, but universities are also being targeted. The White House funded a $ 2 billion in funding for Harvard University, as it refused to agree with a list of demands that would take away its “freedom”.
A student from Georgetown has asked his parents to not fly from the US from India to see a graduate with a master’s degree and is he uncertain whether he will participate in the ceremony himself. He is also taking precautions otherwise. “I have cleaned my chat in messaging apps, and I have learned how to lock my phone quickly in SOS mode,” he said.
Tufts PhD student Annit Major told the BBC that some international “students are working far away because they are afraid that they may not return to the country”, while some have left the countries and are afraid of returning.
A student of the University of Texas said, “I am afraid of being out. I am afraid of coming to school. I am afraid to shop for grocery”. Despite not a part of the pro -Palestine protest, he is full of “crippled anxiety” as he has written important things about the President.
“How far does this administration dig through an immigrant history?” He asked. “What if I said something and I don’t know”, he said.
