Several University of Massachusetts international students have visas revoked

The University of Massachusetts Amherst said Friday that 5 planetary students enrolled astatine the schoolhouse person had their visas revoked by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). 

"The assemblage has learned that, passim the people of this week and arsenic of tonight, 5 planetary students person had their visas revoked and pupil statuses terminated by the national government," UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes said successful a missive posted to the assemblage website. 

"I regret sending this quality truthful precocious connected a Friday; fixed that we learned of immoderate of these revocations this evening, I felt it important to stock this troubling quality astatine this time."

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Reyes said the assemblage wasn’t notified of the changes to the students’ visas, "and lone became alert arsenic a effect of proactive checks successful the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) database. We volition proceed monitoring SEVIS for further updates."

UMass Amherst is the largest successful the state's nationalist assemblage system. 

University of Massachusetts Amherst students protesting connected field successful March.  (Matthew J. Lee/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)

Fox News Digital reached retired to UMass Amherst for comment. 

Earlier this week, the president of Minnesota State University successful Mankato said 5 planetary students astatine the assemblage had visas revoked. 

The school’s president, Edward Inch, said the schoolhouse recovered retired aft moving a database cheque of planetary pupil statuses aft the detention of a Turkish pupil astatine the University of Minnesota successful Minneapolis implicit a drunken driving conviction. 

Other colleges astir the country, including Arizona State, Cornell, North Carolina State, the University of Oregon, the University of Texas and the University of Colorado person besides reported having planetary pupil visas revoked without notice. 

University students Rumeysa Ozturk astatine Tufts and Mahmoud Khalil astatine Columbia were taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful abstracted incidents past month. (Associated Press/Ted Shaffrey)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said past week students are being targeted for engagement successful protests on with others tied to "potential transgression activity."

Early past month, Columbia pupil Mahmoud Khalil, was arrested for his engagement successful anti-Israel protests and alleged enactment of Hamas. 

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And successful precocious March, an Iranian doctoral pupil astatine the University of Alabama, whose visa had been revoked successful 2023, was arrested successful the mediate of the night. 

Although his visa was revoked, helium was told helium could enactment successful the U.S. portion helium remained a student, his lawyer said. 

People stitchery for a protestation successful enactment of Mahmoud Khalil extracurricular a national courthouse successful Newark, N.J., March 28. Khalil's lawyers are responding to a question by the authorities to person Khalil's lawsuit moved to Louisiana. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)

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The Department of Homeland Security said the student, Alireza Doroudi, "posed important nationalist information concerns." 

Last month, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. pupil astatine Tufts University successful Massachusetts, was arrested by migration officers aft she wrote an anti-Israel op-ed for the field newspaper. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.