What to know about the students being detained by ICE over anti-Israel activism

Published March 31, 2025 1:32pm ET



The Trump administration has arrested and detained several students at universities across the country in the weeks since President Donald Trump’s executive order to crack down on antisemitism, with a special eye on college campuses.

The executive order, which Trump signed in January, states the president will “quickly cancel the student visas of all Hamas sympathizers on college campuses, which have been infested with radicalism like never before,” according to a White House fact sheet.

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