At least 21 international students in the Bay area attending UC Berkeley, Stanford, the state of San José and Cal State Bay are among perhaps Didzens throughout the state and the hungry at the national level to revoke their visas, an apparent answer “for calls of calls of calls that protest in the Israel War in Gaza.
Officials of the University of Stanford and UC Berkeley, two campuses that saw important and divisive protests in support of the Palestinians after the brutal conflict of the Middle East broke out in October 2023, said six recent students of each university.
Six students from the San José State University also had their legal permission to live and study in the United States recently fired by federal authorities, spokeswoman Michelle Smith McDonald confirmed on Monday.
So did three current or previous students in CSU East Bay in Hayward, a spokesman said.
And at the end of last week, UC San Diego officials also announced that five international students lost their visas.
“Everything has been quite terrible,” said Carlos Rodríguez on Monday, a mathematics student at Stanford University who knew one of the students whose visa was recently completed, Monday about the environment on the campus in an interview. “We all know at least one international student: we are all concerned that something that can happen to the people who care.”
After assuming the position in January, President Donald Trump signed an “executive order to combat anti-Semitism” that asks for action “to protect the law and order, to quell vandalism and intimidation pro-hamas, and investigate and punish the anti-Jewish racism in the colleges and universities of anti-state universities”, an answer to the pro-Palestinian manifestations in the national city of the national city. Trump also demanded “the elimination of resident foreigners who violate our laws.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio, whose department supervises the visas, published in X last month that “we will revoke the visas and/or green cards of Hamas supporters in the United States so that they can be deported.”
It is not clear how many students’ visas the Trump administration has finished, or why in specific circumstances, with more and more canonized visas announced nationwide every day.
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“It is unacceptable and deeply non-American for students to be punished for defending human rights,” said CEO of Cair-Ca, Hussam Aylush. “These politically motivated revocations are not only chilling but an attack against the legacy of student activism in this country.”
Last week, more than 100 students from all over the Bay area gathered in San Francisco to condemn what they called the “repressive repression” of the Trump administration about the National Student Movement for Palestine.
Rodríguez said he was confused why the visa was canceled for the student he knew, who said he was not active in the pro-palestinian movement on the campus.
“The students are panic,” said Fuad Dadabhoy, executive director of the non -profit organization Manara West, based in Orange County, a resource provider for Muslim university students, which is counting the canceled visas.
Dadabhoy said that another 35 students have recently lost their legal status throughout the state, but it is not still sure.
“The information that comes out is in a drip at this time, compared to a flood,” he said.
Of the six international students with visas finished in UC Berkeley, one is undergraduate, three are postgraduate students and two are recently graduated from a voice program that extends legal status for two years, authorities said on Monday. UC Berkeley has the eighth most of the international students of any university in the United States
A false rumor of a raid by immigration and customs application agents extended on campus last week, said the student.
On Monday, the UC Berkeley Political Student, Justin Taylor, was surprised to learn about the six visas of students who are revoked.
“That is evil, that’s disgusting,” he said.
The manifestations of the students of Pro-Palestinian activists have been a regular occurrence on the campus since doxes of campaign stores in Sprooul Plaza appeared last year in protest for the Israel-Ahamas War.
More recently, UC Berkeley students joined against the trial of Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, a student graduated in Columbia, said psychology student Aiden Hernández. Lately, he said he has seen more online activism than on campus.
The spokesmen of the universities refused to say whether visa endings were in response to pro-palestinian political activism, citing privacy restrictions. They said that campus officials will continue to support international students, connect them with legal resources and keep them up to date with the accelerated changes of the Trump administration to immigration policy.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has cited personal information from hundreds of teachers of UC Berkeley who signed requests of the protests of the war against the war, which adds to the atmosphere of fear and outrage on the campus.
Trump administration officials have also recently canceled federal research funds to university researchers and have launched research to California universities.
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