An international student who is registered at the RHODE Island School of Design (RISD) in Providence has terminated his visa, as confirmed in a public letter to the campus community of Risd President Crystal Williams On Monday, April 7.
The student does not remain mentioned because of their privacy and the school refused to comment further, referring Hyperallergic To the explanation of Williams. According to the letter, Risd’s Office of International Students and Scholar Affairs (ISSA) heard that the student’s international status was “ended”. The school has contacted the student to ‘help identify possible legal means’.
Williams said that Risd was not informed about the reason for the termination of this student, but acknowledged a greater issue of the cancellations of the legal status that affects Hundreds of hundreds of hundreds and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds From international students in the United States.
“Like so many communities of higher education that are affected by changing guidance and policy, we are deeply concerned about these developments and we keep a close eye on the situation,” wrote Williams and mentioned the news about the status of the Risd -Student “personal and professional impactful” and “especially heartbreaking”.
In recent weeks, international endings of students visa and arrests have seen after the performance of the Trump administration against pro-Palestine activism at university campuses, starting with the graduate student of Columbia University and the Palestinian Mahmoud Khalil born in Syria.
Last monthRisd has issued a school -wide communication that international students, teachers, personnel and members of the community that are American visa holders or permanent residents, your travel plans that require your travel plans to be re -displayed in the US “seriously consider or postpone”
It is not immediately clear whether the Risd student was affiliated with the students of the School of Justice in the Palestine (RSJP) chapter, which organized a three-day “De Ondraging” of Campus structure last May to demand that Risd financial investment transparency, disinesting of the Israeli Occepts or Gazely is a publicly one. genocide. ” The acquisition of the building was resolved after Williams endangered the expulsion.
In a statement to HyperallergicJo, an organizer at RSJP who asked to be only identified by the first name, called the new ‘an attack on our immigrants and international student community’.
“Thirty-three percent of our 2,084 students are international students-that are around 687 people, excluding graduated students,” Jo continued. “I don’t know who the student is or why their visa has been withdrawn, but it is clear that the Risd community must withstand the fascist attacks of Trump.”
“We demand that the RISD administration supports our communities and refuse to meet the requirements of ice and Trump,” said Jo.
Isa Farfan has contributed reporting.
