The Trump administration’s crackdown on foreign students and faculty who have voiced support for the Palestinian cause has escalated, with universities across the country seeing students either

These are troubling times, and this situation is unlike any we have navigated before,” the university president said in a statement.

Law experts explained that while the reasoning for students being detained is “unusual,” the Department of Homeland Security has the final say.

Just days after one of his students was detained without warning by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Minnesota State University-Mankato President Edward Inch announced Wednesday that five international students have had their visas canceled by the Department of Homeland Security.

A student at Tufts University arrested last week by ICE agents is one of several international students being targeted by the Trump administration over their pro-Palestinian activism. The arrests come after a Trump signed an executive order targeting anti-Semitism on college campuses.

An international University of Minnesota graduate student who was detained by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials last week, was taken into custody because of a prior drunken driving incident,

Federal immigration authorities have targeted at least seven international students in addition to recent Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil this month for deportation.

The cancelations come in the midst of a widespread crackdown against students federal officials contend are acting against national interests.

An international graduate student attending the University of Minnesota has been detained by ICE. The school did not say why the student was arrested.