Four international students from the San Diego State University dismissed their visa, University announced on Thursday, while the Trump administration continues its repression of immigration against hundreds of international students across the country.
These revocations are added to five UC San Diego students who also revoked their visas. And an UCSD student was detained at the border and deported to their country of origin.
We still don’t know exactly why the State Department revoked these visas. SDSU said that he would not publish details on students due to confidentiality laws and that all students had been informed.
Thursday, 48 students from California State University saw their visa revoked since the start of the year, according to the Updates page of the University System.
UC president Michael Drake said on Wednesday that the UC knew 50 recent students and graduates who had revoked visas. He said the federal government had not warned a warning and said it had ended the visas for alleged violations.
Last fall, the UCSD had more than 7,000 international students registered and SDSU had nearly 1,000.
Meanwhile, the CSU system warns all students, teachers and staff who plan to travel internationally to “proceed to extreme caution” and weigh carefully if it is necessary to travel internationally at this time, taking into account the recent wave of application of federal immigration when people try to reintegrate the United States
The state of San Diego says that it provides free legal services for immigration to students, teachers and staff thanks to a partnership with Jewish Family Service, which also provides services in other local colleges. The CSU system indicates that it also provides such services thanks to a contract with the legal defense of immigrants.
The increased application against immigrants and visa-detentors, as well as the threats of cuts to universities that defy the requirements of the Trump administration, created a climate of fear on campuses but also resistance.
The University of San Diego joined more than 80 colleges across the country to deposit a brief Air Amicus Curiae on Wednesday to support a prosecution contesting the arrests and deportations of the Trump administration of students and teachers who protested the War of Israel in Gaza.
This thesis is one of the first large -scale declarations of higher education establishments to protest against the policies of President Donald Trump targeting international students and immigrants. His signatories included many Catholic universities, colleges of liberal arts, other private universities and some state universities.
Colleges say that the loss of international students, teachers and staff will injure American colleges with registrations, tuition fees and reduced academics, and ultimately harm American research, innovation and economics. They warn against a “brain flight” of teachers and students who will rather flock to institutions from other countries.
“Policy presumes that it will benefit from the United States while only harming the non-citizens that the administration is in favor,” said the brief. “In fact, in the long term, politics will benefit other countries … and it seriously affects the United States, by depriving this country of the many advantages that non-citizens of American colleges and universities offer and decreasing American higher education.”
The USD was the only college in the San Diego region to have signed in the memory.
On Wednesday, a hundred people participated in a demonstration against the revocations of student visas outside the Geisel library of the UCSD. The students held panels with messages like “the school is 4 education and not the expulsion!” And “wake up, get up, resist”. They chanted: “More hatred, more fear, immigrants are welcome here.”
Aryan Dixit, protest organizer and member of the chapter of the civil union of the school students’ freedoms, said it was necessary to express and protest now, because more people will be the next – not necessarily those who are in visas.
President Dominic Garcia, a representative of the student group Mecha of the UCSD, made the same point.
“My community has been expelled, and many others walked as if it did not matter because they have visas, because they are citizens,” said Garcia. “It is clearly unfolded before our eyes.”
Dixit said that several students had told him that they wanted to protest on Wednesday, but that it did not fear that it could expel them. He also condemned the Trump administration on Wednesday on Wednesday that immigration officials are starting to monitor the speech of immigrants on social networks and could refuse requests on the basis of it.
“What do you think of fear too frightened by your students to present themselves on their own campus, in front of their own library here, because the simple fact of walking near this place could condemn them to lose their diplomas, their future and their career?” Said dixit.
The writer Gary Robbins contributed to this report.
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California Daily Newspapers
