ICE Is Secretly Revoking Students’ Immigration Status

Mehdi Hasan’s Zeteo reports:

According to documentation seen by Zeteo and interviews with university officials, the administration is deploying the rarely-used risk-to-foreign-policy immigration provision they used to detain Mahmoud Khalil to now target students across the country.

ICE appears to be manually revoking students’ immigration status – an authority typically left to university staff. And some students and universities are not even being made aware of those revocations – setting students up to be taken by immigration agents without even knowing it was coming.

Three university officials, who were given anonymity so they could speak freely, across the country report that, in recent days, student residency statuses in the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – SEVIS, a database where residency statuses of foreign students are managed – are being changed without their knowledge.

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SCOOP: The Trump admin appears to be going into a visa database to quietly change students’ immigration status. It’s coming entirely by surprise — setting students up to be detained without warning.

It’s Mahmoud Khalil & Rumeysa Ozturk — on a wider scale.https://t.co/MV7P1z56kx

— Prem Thakker (@prem_thakker) March 30, 2025