After the arrest of Colombia, students of International College become silent

At a interval of a week, a fate over higher education in the United States.

International students and faculty have seen the growing cracks on Pro-Filistini protesters at Columbia University. Some people say they are familiar with government cracks, but they never expected in American college complexes.

Elite New York City University has focused on the efforts of the Trump administration to deport foreigners participating in Palestinian demonstrations in colleges last year.

Federal immigration agents arrested two foreigners – one of them students – who protested in Colombia last year. He has canceled another student’s visa, who fled the US this week. The Department of Homeland Security Agents also discovered the campus residences of two Columbia students on Thursday, but did not arrest there.

GOP officials have warned that this is just the beginning, saying that more students are expected to be canceled in the coming days.

Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism released a statement in the last week, reporting “a dangerous chil” among its foreign students.

“Many of our international students have felt fearing coming to classrooms and for events for events,” “” has been stated in a statement signed by “” Faculty of Columbia Journalism School “.

It states: “They are right to be worried.”

International students and faculty across the US say that they are afraid of voice opinion or standing in the premises for fear of being out of the country.

“Green-card-holding faculty members are involved in any kind of advocacy, which cannot be welcomed by the Trump administration, being absolutely nervous by the implication of their immigration status,” the University of California, the University of California, said a law professor Veena Dabal, a law at the University of Irwin.

Double, who is also a general lawyer for professors of the American Association of University, says that some international faculty are now disturbing the articles from publication in discourse, debate, scholar research and colleagues reviewed by colleagues.

“We are really not listening to their voice. A silence is happening that has a huge impact on the vibrancy of higher education, ”said Double. “People are very, very afraid.”

The first publicly known arrest took place last Saturday, when federal immigration agents arrested Mahmud Khalil, a leading Palestinian worker and outspoken graduate student in their apartment building lobby near the Columbia campus.

Khalil has become the face of President Donald Trump’s drive, which he punishes, which he calls an antisemic and anti -American opposition that swooped the American complexes last year. Khalil, a legal American resident with a green card, is being held in a federal detention complex in Louisiana.

Students and faculties participating in protests in Colombia have insisted on criticizing Israel and advocating Palestinian rights is not antisemtic. Some Jewish students and faculty say that the anti -Israel rhetoric made them feel insecure.

Advocates of civil rights say that Khalil is an attack on custody -free speech. But the ongoing arrests send a broad message that you may be out of the country due to disagreeing with the Trump administration, a senior employee of the American Civil Liberty Union, a lawyer Brian Hoss.

“If the administration can do this to Mr. Khalil due to a speech about Palestine, it can do it for any non-American citizen who takes a position on global issues, including war between Russia and Ukraine, tariffs against American colleagues or the rise of far-flung rights in Europe,” he said.

This concern has spread outside New York.

A Bangladeshi student at Louisiana State University, who agreed to speak only on the condition of anonymity for fear of being targeted by the authorities, said that she had stopped doing anything political posts on social media since the first arrest in Colombia. He is afraid of losing his green card.

The student said, “I think it is not safe for me to share those things because I am afraid that a quotation-unreasonable ‘ruling rule’ has danked on social media posts.” When she lived in Bangladesh, she said, people can be arrested for posting dissatisfaction on social media. “The fear I am in a similar situation in the United States.”

Some schools are advising international students what they say publicly and to see what they say online. Many international students in a variety of college complexes said that they do not like to talk with a reporter out of anxiety for their immigration status.

Administrators of Columbia’s Graduate School of Journalism have warned students who are not American citizens, who are about their vulnerability for arrest or exile.

“No one can protect you, these are dangerous times,” the school’s dean, Jilani Cob said in a post on Bluuski on Thursday. “I said that I would do everything in my power to protect my journalists and do everything in their right to report, but none of us had the ability to stop DHS from endangering their safety.”

At the University of California, Davis, the Global Affairs Program has updated its website with the first amendment and advised on free speech for non-American nationals.

“While international students and scholars have widespread rights to the freedom of speech and valid assembly, please keep in mind that the current and/or future immigration results can be triggered by law enforcement,” the school says on its website. “Every person should take proper care and use their best decision.”

The activities of immigration officers in Colombia increased quickly this week.

Laca Cordia, a Palestinian of West Bank, was arrested by immigration officials for overthothing their student visas, the Homeland Security Department said on Friday. The department said that the alumn’s visa was abolished in January 2022 for “lack of attendance”. The agency said that he was first arrested for joining the protests in Columbia in April 2024.

The Trump administration also allegedly canceled the visa of an Indian citizen and doctoral student Ranjani Srinivasan at the University of Columbia for allegedly “advocating violence and terrorism”. The department said that Srinivasan opted for “self-discourse” on Tuesday, five days after its visa was canceled, the department said.

The President has warned the arrest and Khalil’s exile attempt will be “the first of many people”. State Secretary Marco Rubio told reporters on Friday that more students were likely to be canceled in the coming days.

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