Jayapal Statement on Trump Administration Stripping UW Students of Lawful Status Without Due Process or Notice

WASHINGTON, DC — U.S. Representative Pramila Jayapal (WA-07), Ranking Member of the Immigration Integrity, Security, and Enforcement Subcommittee, released the following statement after it was reported that over a dozen University of Washington students had their student visas revoked without notice or warning.

“The Trump administration’s stripping University of Washington Students of their lawful status with no due process or notice is just the latest attack by this administration on legal immigration.

“The Trump administration is out of control with indiscriminately cruel immigration actions. Across the country, students are having their legal status revoked and being snatched and disappeared – in some cases by masked immigration agents in unmarked cars – and being held in detention facilities with no warning and limited information as to why they are being deported.

“The Trump administration’s heavy-handed and politically motivated immigration enforcement is turning university campuses into places of fear rather than learning. This is not about national security. It is about using immigration enforcement as a weapon to stifle political dissent, restrict due process, and enforce an exclusionary and nativist vision of America that runs counter to everything our institutions of higher learning stand for.”

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Issues: Arts & Education, Immigration