Colleges in ICE's deportation crosshairs shelled out discounts, financial aid to illegal immigrants: GOP rep

Several colleges that are being targeted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) nether the Trump medication person recruited amerciable immigrants with hefty fiscal assistance packages. 

On time 1 of President Donald Trump's administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued a directive that opened the doorway for migration enforcement to instrumentality spot connected assemblage campuses. Since then, ICE has detained respective students. 

Tufts University pupil Rumeysa Öztürk was taken into custody connected Wednesday by ICE successful Somerville, Massachusetts, aft her visa was revoked by the Department of Homeland Security. A spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security antecedently told Fox News Digital that Öztürk was "granted the privilege to beryllium successful this state connected a visa."

"DHS and ICE investigations recovered Öztürk engaged successful activities successful enactment of Hamas, a overseas violent enactment that relishes the sidesplitting of Americans," the spokesperson said.

VIDEO SHOWS ARREST OF TUFTS UNIVERSITY STUDENT FOR ALLEGEDLY SUPPORTING HAMAS

Rumeysa Öztürk, a 30-year-old doctoral pupil astatine Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents connected a thoroughfare successful Sommerville, Mass., connected March 25. (AP)

Tufts University successful Boston has a webpage that states amerciable immigrants, arsenic good arsenic individuals with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, are eligible to get "100% of demonstrated need" of the outgo to be the institution.

"Tufts proudly meets 100% of the demonstrated fiscal request of each admitted student, careless of citizenship status," reads the Tufts webpage.

Notably, according to the American Immigration Council, much than 408,000 amerciable migrant students are enrolled astatine American colleges and universities.

Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, told Fox News Digital that colleges person been courting amerciable immigrants for "too long" and suggested pulling immoderate national backing for definite institutions.

"This has been going connected mode excessively long, and I'm conscionable thankful that we are truly astatine a constituent of being capable to person these benignant of conversations, beryllium capable to clasp the colleges accountable, and the lone mode to bash that is to instrumentality distant the money. That's the lone happening that they understand," Owens said.

The Joint Task Force to Combat Anti-Semitism announced Monday it's reviewing implicit $255.6 cardinal successful contracts betwixt the national authorities and Harvard University.

COLUMBIA GRADS SHRED DIPLOMAS OVER MAHMOUD KHALIL ARREST: 'WE ARE ENRAGED'

Mahmoud Khalil allegedly played a large relation successful the protests against Israel astatine Columbia University. (Ted Shaffrey)

Mahmoud Khalil, who helped pb the outpouring 2024 anti-Israel encampment, was detained by ICE agents successful New York City successful aboriginal March. The Department of Homeland Security alleges that Khalil "led activities aligned to Hamas, a designated violent organization."

Khalil was calved successful Syria and came to the U.S. successful 2022 earlier becoming a imperishable nonmigratory successful 2024.

In a tribunal filing, the Department of Homeland Security alleged that Khalil lied connected a signifier to alteration his migration presumption and didn't disclose his "membership successful [a] definite organization."

One of the organizations referenced successful the filing was the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), which had tens of millions of dollars successful national backing revoked aft Israel accused the enactment of having employees enactment successful Hamas' Oct. 7, 2023, violent attack.

(Getty Images | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

According to the tribunal filing, Khalil was a UNRWA governmental serviceman from June 2023 to November 2023.

At Columbia University successful New York City, the instauration boasts that it volition conscionable "the afloat request of each applicants admitted," which is "regardless of citizenship."

"Columbia admits a ample fig of planetary students who person a important magnitude of fiscal aid," a assemblage webpage states.

Owens besides said that he's pleased the Trump medication is taking enactment against students who "slipped through" the Biden and Obama administrations.

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"We person to marque definite that the field is simply a harmless place. Those who are not present for the close reasons, I deliberation Marco Rubio said it best. You know, we inquire questions erstwhile radical travel present to get a visa, and that is: Why you here? If you accidental you are going to travel present truthful you tin disrupt, to demonstrate, to intimidate, to terrorize, past you'll ne'er get the accidental to travel here," Owens said.

"So yes, we request to marque definite those kinds of radical that gaffe done the screens that Obama and Biden evidently did not enactment up, we're going to get them out. And we'll get backmost to wherever we invited the assemblage field and radical that are determination to debate, to larn and to turn and to springiness backmost to our nation."

"The intent of our universities is not to spell retired and coddle those who hatred our nation," helium added.

Fox News Digital has reached retired to Tufts University and Columbia University for comment.

Fox News' Sarah Rumpf-Whitten and Peter D'Abrosca contributed to this report.