Many international students studying in the United States have been seeing a series of occurrences on their social media feeds over the past few weeks: plainclothes officers showing up without warning and dragging students away to detention facilities in unmarked vehicles.
Those arrested in a series of high-profile student detentions that were caught on camera have not been charged with any crimes; instead, they seem to have been singled out for participation in pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses. According to the Trump administration, visas are a “privilege” that may be cancelled for several reasons at any moment.
According to a tracker from Inside Higher Ed, an online news site covering the industry, more than 1,000 international students or recent graduates at colleges across the US now have their visas revoked or their legal statuses altered, suggesting that the crackdown is much broader than initially believed.
Many people are unaware of the exact causes, and colleges often only discover the changes when they check a government-run database that tracks the visa status of international students.
Students and teachers told the BBC that campuses across the board, from the largest public colleges to prestigious Ivy League schools, are on edge due to the combination of targeted detentions and allegations of widespread visa revocations.
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