The news site Zeteo is reporting the Trump administration has begun secretly revoking immigration statuses of international university students without the knowledge of the students or their university. Most of the students have reportedly been from the Middle East and Muslim-majority countries. The move by ICE, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, makes it possible for federal agents to then seize the students without warning.

In related news, The Times of India reports the State Department has emailed hundreds of international students, asking them to self-deport for allegedly participating in campus activism.

This comes as legal battles continue over a number of students who have already been detained. On Saturday, protesters gathered outside a federal building in Minneapolis after ICE detained a graduate student at the University of Minnesota. On Friday, protesters also rallied outside a New Jersey courthouse where a hearing was held on the case of Mahmoud Khalil, the Columbia student protest leader who was detained three weeks ago. Amy Torres is the head of the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice.

Amy Torres: “Yes, this is about Palestine. And also this is not about Palestine. This is about this administration taking the issue that they believe is the least sympathetic and making an example out of the people that they arrest so that they can dehumanize the issue, they can dehumanize the actors, they can dehumanize the people standing up, as a means of going after every single one of us.”