Trump admin revokes eleven students' legal status

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In an email, the director of A&M's International Student & Scholar Services called the terminations an “unprecedented situation”


Nicholas Gutteridge, Editor-in-Chief
April 8, 2025

Almost a dozen international students at Texas A&M have had their legal status in the U.S. revoked, a spokesperson confirmed Tuesday afternoon. The terminations come amid a national crackdown by the Trump administration on students connected to campus activism, though it remains unclear whether those impacted at A&M were affiliated with advocacy.

“Texas A&M has had nine students with Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records terminated by the U.S. government as of Monday morning,” a university spokesperson said in a statement to The Battalion. “The university’s International Student & Scholar Services (ISSS) team has been in contact with the affected students, and ISSS has been in communication with the international student and scholar community on campus to provide appropriate information and support. Texas A&M follows all federal and state laws, while ensuring a campus culture that supports every Aggie every day.”

The statement listed the number known as of Monday morning, but in an email sent to faculty Tuesday afternoon, ISSS’ director Samantha Clement said the number has since increased to 11, 10 from College Station and one from Galveston. Of the 11, Clement wrote that 10 were graduate students and one had since left the U.S.

“Specifically, they are changing their Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) record from Active to Terminated, which essentially means they no longer have legal status in the U.S.,” Clement wrote in the email, which was obtained and verified by The Battalion. “This is arguably a more direct impact on students’ lives than a visa revocation.”

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1. Good way to kill of higher education is scare foreign students from coming here