BALTIMORE — The Trump Administration is continuing its crackdown on American colleges and universities.
Recently the U.S. Department of Homeland Security began revoking international student visas.
The government's actions come in response to universities handling of campus demonstrations and protests over the war in Gaza.
Ivy League institutions like Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, and Princeton have all experienced funding cuts over their alleged condoning of antisemitism.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio pledged to investigate and penalize organizations or individuals deemed responsible.
One punishment is visa revocations. Many students across the nation have lost their legal status in the country.
Here in Maryland colleges already felt the effects of frozen federal grants, yet none until now reported student visa terminations.
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On Wednesday WMAR-2 News confirmed a number of students had their visas yanked at University of Maryland and Johns Hopkins University.
About a dozen Hopkins graduate students and recent graduates are currently impacted.
Officials only learned about it through the Immigration and Customs Student and Exchange Visitor Information System.
Apparently no reason was given. So far it's not believed any students were arrested or detained.
"As the visa sponsor, the university has taken required steps to inform students of the terminations. The university is providing a range of support services to affected students through our offices of international services, academic advising, and health and wellbeing," JHU said in a statement. "We have received no information about the specific basis for the revocations, and we have no indication that the revocations are associated with free expression activities on campus. While visa revocations do require students to depart the United States, we are not aware of any arrests or detentions of Johns Hopkins students as a result of these visa actions."
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Meanwhile, UMD also confirmed some students were stripped of visas, but it's unclear how many.
"The university is aware that some international students at institutions nationwide, including UMD, have experienced the unexpected termination of their lawful status in the United States," UMD said in an emailed statement. "UMD's International Students and Scholars Services office will continue to communicate with impacted individuals to provide information specific to their situations."
Four graduate students at UMBC had visas pulled as well, an official said.
