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Anxiety on US college campuses as foreign students deported

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More than 1,000 international students or recent graduates at colleges across the US have had their visas revoked or legal statuses changed, according to a tracker from Inside Higher Ed , an online news site covering the sector.

The crackdown appears to be far wider than initially thought and has left campuses on edge, students and faculty say.

"I could be next," says one student visa-holder who has written articles about Israel and the war in Gaza .

White House task force on combating antisemitism froze over $2bn in funding for Harvard University .

Georgetown professor Nader Hashemi said he believes the government's main goal is "silencing dissent" at universities.

Tufts PhD student Anteri Mejr said that international students she knows who have left the country afraid to return.

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English

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57

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