Visa revoked for grad student at University of Minnesota over DUI, not protests: DHS
An international University of Minnesota grad student was arrested and had their visa revoked because of their “prior criminal history for a DUI,” not any “student protests,” federal officials said Monday.The unidentified graduate student was arrested by ICE at an off-campus residence Thursday in the latest crackdown on foreign students and staff at US colleges, according to Fox News.ICE arrested the student for the prior DUI, leading the Trump administration to revoke the person’s visa, wrote Department of Homeland Security rep Tricia McLaughlin on X.The University of Minnesota said in a statement last week that it “had no prior knowledge of this incident and did not share any information with federal authorities before it occurred,” adding that the arrest was “deeply concerning.”Protesters took to downtown Minneapolis over the weekend in response to the student’s arrest.Minnesota Gov.Tim Walz said on X on Friday that he is demanding “answers” from DHS on the arrest.“I just spoke with Homeland Security to get more information and I will share when I learn more,” Walz wrote.
“The University of Minnesota is an international destination for education and research.We have any number of students studying here with visas, and we need answers.”The Trump administration’s mass deportation effort has targeted several foreign-born students in recent weeks.Secretary of State Marco Rubio has so far revoked the visas of roughly 300 international students.“We do it every day.
Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa,” he said.Mahmoud Khalil, a 30-year-old Syrian-border former graduate student at Columbia University who is of Palestinian ethnicity, was the first such student arrest.ICE agents detained Khalil, who held a student visa and green card, on March 8 after he helped organize several anti-Israel protests dating back to last spring.Khalil is now fighting the Trump administration’s effort to deport him while ...