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Eight international students at Arizona State University have had their visas revoked amid the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts and a crackdown on students expressing their political views.
An ASU spokesperson confirmed Wednesday in an email to Arizona Luminaria that the students’ visas were revoked recently — in the first two days of April and in late March.
Little more is publicly known about who the students are or why their visas were revoked.
The ASU spokesperson wouldn’t comment on whether any of the students who had their visas revoked have been arrested.
“The only thing we can tell you at this time is that eight out of our 15,100 international students have had their visas revoked. These were not protest related,” the spokesperson wrote.
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