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ICE Revoking Students' Immigration Statuses Without Their or the Uni's Knowledge


“Never seen something like this,” say university officials about the secret targeting of Middle Eastern students.

According to documentation seen by Zeteo and interviews with university officials, the administration is deploying the rarely-used risk-to-foreign-policy immigration provision they used to detain Mahmoud Khalil to now target students across the country. To maintain one’s status, a student has to fulfill certain requirements, like being properly enrolled in classes, keeping documents up to date, and following work restrictions. In multiple cases, the US cited both the foreign policy provision and another portion of Section 237 to assert that the student was "otherwise failing to maintain their status.”

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