“We can cancel a student visa under the law just the same way that we can deny a student visa under the law,‘’ Rubio said. ”And we will do so in cases we find appropriate.”
Minnesota State Mankato has more than 1,700 international students. The U’s Twin Cities campus has more than 6,000 international students, and Minnesota overall has nearly 15,000.
The Mankato campus president encouraged people on campus to reach out to resources such as the Global Education Centers, Counseling Center and 211 Basic Needs Resource Hub if they or someone they know need support. Inch also urged them to ask advisors for help.
Cyrille Date, the president of the International Student Association at the university, said that with so little information available Monday, “everybody’s kind of on the edge right now waiting to hear more.”
“As international students, we were warned of what could come with this new administration, but everyone was under the assumption that if you were here legally, then you should have nothing to worry about,” Date said. “We’re here legally, so we’re not really sure why anyone on this campus or any campus in America would be targeted.”
Elliot Hughes and Erin Adler of the Minnesota Star Tribune contributed to this story, which also contains material from the Associated Press.