Washington:
Federal authorities have held an international student who is studying at Tufts University near Boston and withdrew their visa, the University said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
Tufts said that the graduate student was brought into the American detention from an off-campus apartment building in Somerville, Massachusetts and that it had no further details about the incident or circumstances regarding the student's status.
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Representatives of the US Department of Interior Security, US Customs and Border Protection and US Immigration and Customs enforcement could not be immediately reached for comment on the University's statement.
A lawyer who represents the student cannot be reached immediately.
The detention is the newest step of the government of the Republican US President Donald Trump who focuses on international students, because it tries to limit immigration, including raising immigration arrests and the greatest limit of border crossings.
Trump and his top diplomat Marco Rubio have promised in particular to deport foreign Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, to accuse them of supporting Hamas agents, obstacles to US foreign policy and being anti-Semitic.
This month arrested student Protester and Lawful Permanent Resident Mahmoud Khalil was arrested at Columbia University. He legally challenges his detention after Trump, without proof, accused him of supporting Hamas, which Khalil denies.
Federal Immigration Officers also try a Korean-American student of the University of Columbia, who is a legal permanent American resident and has participated in Pro-Palestinian protests, a movement that has been blocked by the courts for the time being.
Earlier this month, a Lebanese doctor and university professor at Brown University in Rhode Island was denied that the US was re -introduced and deported to Lebanon after the government of Trump claimed that her phone contained photos “sympathetic” for Hezbollah. Dr. Rasha Alawieh said that she is not supporting the operating group, but stands from regard to her leader, who is now dead because of her religion.
Trump's administration also focused on students at Cornell University in the University of New York and Georgetown in Washington.
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