This post was updated April 6 at 11:08 p.m.

The United States government has revoked the visas of multiple students across the UC, including at UCLA.

The UC Office of the President confirmed in a Friday statement that the revocations impacted students at several UC campuses. Students at Tufts University, Ohio State University, North Carolina State University and several other U.S. higher education institutions have reported the Trump administration revoking their visas – with the administration allegedly targeting students involved in pro-Palestine protests.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a March 27 press conference that the U.S. has revoked around 300 student visas.

“The University of California is aware that international students across several of our campuses have been impacted by recent SEVIS terminations,” the statement said. “We are committed to doing what we can to support all members of our community as they exercise their rights under the law.”

Once a student’s SEVIS – or Student and Exchange Visitor Information System – record is terminated, they are considered to no longer have visa status, according to the UC San Diego International Services and Engagement Office.

Undergraduate Students Association Council President Adam Tfayli said in a text message at 10:08 p.m. Friday that multiple UCLA students have been impacted by the terminations. 

Chancellor Julio Frenk said in a Sunday campuswide email that the visas of six current students and six alumni participating in the Optional Practical Training program were revoked. He added in the email that termination notices received by the students claimed they had violated the terms of their visas. 

“At this time, UCLA is not aware of any federal law enforcement activity on campus related to these terminations,” Frenk said in the email.

USAC International Student Representative Syed Tamim Ahmad said the UCLA Dashew Center for International Students and Scholars – which provides visa services and support – believes the terminations were related to arrests or misdemeanor convictions.

“The UCLA administration should speak up and (provide) support directly to the international students and basically say that the international students are not alone – provide support and legal assistance,” he said. “These are uncertain times, and students are scared.”

Ahmad said Dashew Center staff would monitor for more information over the weekend and will send notifications if more visas are revoked.

James Echols, UCPD’s community services division lieutenant, said in an emailed statement that UCPD has not provided information about arrests or protest activity to either Immigrations and Customs Enforcement or the Department of Homeland Security. He added that UCPD would only assist those agencies if the person they were trying to detain posed a dangerous threat to the UCLA community.

Echols also said in the statement that the department does not believe representatives from either organization have been present on UCLA’s campus and that UCPD has not received any warrants from federal agencies in the last seven days.

Trump issued a January executive order that threatened to revoke the visas of students who participated in pro-Palestine protests. Pro-Palestine protesters set up encampments at all nine UC undergraduate campuses last spring. 

[Related: Trump signs executive order threatening to revoke pro-Palestine protesters’ visas]

Hannah Appel, a spokesperson for Faculty for Justice in Palestine at UCLA, condemned the revocations in a written statement and called on UCLA administrators and California Gov. Gavin Newsom to protect international students.

“We condemn the unlawful revocations of student visas at colleges and universities in California and across the country,” said Appel, an associate professor of anthropology and global studies, in the statement. “We demand university leaders and Governor Newsom act now to defend the right of students to learn, regardless of where they were born.”

The co-chairs of UCLA’s Task Force on Anti-Palestinian, Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim Racism alleged in a letter to Frenk and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost Darnell Hunt that pro-Palestine students and students from countries they said the Trump administration considers adversarial were specifically targeted by the revocations.

The letter also called on Frenk and Hunt to ensure that students affected by visa revocations remain enrolled at UCLA and to challenge the Department of Homeland Security for its “failure to follow due process.”

“UC students across the system, regardless of their political alignments, are now the targets of the federal government’s violations of the constitutional right to freedom of speech and due process,” the letter said. “This has created a climate of great fear and uncertainty among our students at UCLA.”

Tfayli and Ahmad posted a joint statement to their Instagram accounts Friday evening stating that their offices are hoping to support students, but they asked that people do not include details of their individual situations in their email inquiries.

“We are connected to legal professionals experienced in immigration-related matters who can provide confidential legal guidance,” they said in the statement.

Five students at UC San Diego also had their visas terminated, according to reporting from the UCSD Guardian, the campus’s student newspaper. The Guardian also reported that a sixth student was detained at the U.S. border and deported.

UCLA Media Relations did not provide detailed responses to a request for more information, referring instead to the earlier UCOP statement and Frenk’s email to students.

Contributing reports by Gabrielle Gillette and Dylan Winward, Daily Bruin staff.