Visas revoked for 'a few' international students at UC Merced

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Across the country, planetary students are having their visas revoked without warning.

On Monday, UC Merced confirmed to Action News that " a few" planetary students abruptly had their visas revoked.

The quality came arsenic a daze to students connected campus.

"If idiosyncratic had the accidental to travel present and they got that accidental legally, they shouldn't person that accidental revoked for them, unless there's different ineligible crushed it should beryllium revoked for them, but if it's being randomly revoke,d that's wholly unfair," said Malcom Berry, a student.

The assemblage provided a connection that read, successful part:

"The assemblage is alert of a fewer students who person been impacted and the field is supporting them successful accordance with long-standing process for visa revocations. Our Office of International Affairs is moving with these UC Merced students to navigate the process and encouraging them to question ineligible counsel for further guidance."

The assemblage went connected to accidental owed to pupil privateness laws, they cannot supply immoderate much accusation connected the circumstances.

This comes arsenic the Trump Administration is cancelling F-1 pupil visas crossed the nation.

Visas tin beryllium canceled for respective reasons, but assemblage leaders crossed the state accidental that galore students' ineligible residency presumption is being terminated with small to nary announcement to students oregon schools.

In the Bay Area, Berkeley says six students had their visas revoked by the Department of Homeland Security and were told to permission the country.

There, it's believed immoderate students whitethorn person been targeted for their governmental activism, involving pro-Palestinian demonstrations.

"It's sadly ironic that this has happened here, radical person been silenced for speaking out, virtually sent backmost to wherever they are from for expressing their right," said pupil Trinity Ravindran.

The quality comes aft Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the State Department had revoked much than 300 pupil visas past month.

Fresno State wouldn't accidental if immoderate students were impacted connected their campus, but said successful total, 32 CSU students system-wide person had their visas revoked.

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