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Higher education leaders worry the arrests and visa revocations could discourage students overseas from pursuing higher education in the United States.
The lack of clarity of what is leading to revocations can create a sense of fear among students, said Sarah Spreitzer, vice-president of government relations at the American Council on Education, reports the Associated Press (AP).
Spreitzer said:
The very public actions that are being taken by ICE and the Department of Homeland Security around some of these students, where they are removing these students from their homes or from their streets, that’s not usually done unless there is a security issue when a student visa is revoked.
The threat of this very quick removal is something that’s new.