According to a university spokesperson.
The university learned the revocations on Friday, the same day, the Central Michigan University announced that several current and former international students had their visas and their right to remain in the United States legally revoked.
“The administrators contacted these students to advise them on the potential consequences of this action,” said public affairs director Kay Jarvis on Sunday.
It has provided any additional information on students or how the revocations have been discovered.
The American Department of Internal Security did not immediately respond to an investigation into the reason why the legal residence of the students was revoked.
In relation: The Trump administration remains the legal residence of the center of Michigan U. International students
Last month, federal officials arrested several international students who had been involved in demonstrations against the War of Israel in Gaza, notably Mahmoud Khalil, who played a leading role in demonstrations at Columbia University, and Rumeysa Ozturk, a doctoral student from Toft University who was arrested in the street in a suburbs of Boston.
But the Trump administration seems to have expanded its efforts in the past two weeks.
Managers of the University of Texas, the University of Oregon, Cornell University, Arizona State University, the University of Colorado and other schools across the country say that hundreds of international students have often revoked their status of legal residence, often without notice.
In some cases, justifications were minor legal offenses. In other cases, the government has provided schools with no clear reason at all.
“We do them every day,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told journalists at the end of last month.
“These are visitors to the country,” he added, “if they take activities contrary to our foreigner-to our national interest, to our foreign policy, we will revoke the visa.”
At the University of Michigan, international students represented more than 16% last fall last fall.
