Trump administration cancels 5 international student visas at UCSD; another student deported

[Zorro]

The government also told a handful of students from UCLA and Stanford to leave the country

The Trump administration has cancelled the F-1 visas of five international students at UC San Diego, adding the school to the growing list of universities nationwide where the government is taking such action.

“The federal government has not explained the reasons behind these terminations,” Chancellor Pradeep Khosla said in a campus notice posted shortly before 9 p.m. Friday. “The students have been notified, and we are working directly with them to provide support.”

Khosla said that one other UCSD student was detained at the border earlier this week, denied entry and deported to their home country. The university did not provide further details.

“Because of student privacy laws, we are not able to comment beyond that at this time,” Matt Nagel, UCSD’s director of communications, told the Union-Tribune on Saturday.

UCSD is the nation’s sixth largest research university and has long been a magnet for international students. Nearly 7,200 of its 44,256 students come from other countries, mostly to earn degrees in STEM fields. The number has slipped in recent years largely due to tension between the U.S. and China.

https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/2025/04/05/trump-administration-cancels-more-than-a-dozen-international-student-visas-at-university-of-california-stanford-2/

[viva la]

1. I teach in college.

Often the best students are the international students, even the ones who are not native English speakers, who are lonely and homesick, who sometimes can't go home because there's a civil war in their country.
They're dedicated, disciplined, and focused.
Frankly, few homegrown American students can compete-- or want to compete.
This is why Trump is against DEI and immigration-- because he knows that they're better than his crowd. Rich white nepo guys like him haven't ever needed to compete, and don't want to. They want the country to go back to the time they didn't have to work hard or be smart to be in charge.