Harvard says 3 students recently had visas revoked, amid Trump crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism

Three Harvard students have had their visas revoked amid the Trump administration's crackdown on pro-Palestinian demonstrations on U.S. college campuses.

Harvard administrators said they learned about the visas being revoked during a "routine records review," The Harvard Crimson newspaper reported Sunday.

Harvard has not released the names of the students whose visas were revoked, citing privacy concerns. The Ivy League college also said two recent graduates had their visas revoked, too, but made clear it did not know the reason for the revocations.

“We are not aware of the details of the revocations or the reasons for them, but we understand that comparable numbers of students and scholars in institutions across the country have experienced similar status changes in roughly the same timeframe,” the Harvard International Office said in a statement.

International students from universities across the U.S. have had their visas revoked due to their purported participation in anti-Israel or pro-Palestinian protests. 

Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement last month for his role in such protests last spring that resulted in canceled in-person classes and arrests.

The Trump administration says Khalil's greed card – a document that allows immigrants to work in the U.S. and provides them with a pathway to citizenship, was revoked because he didn't disclosing information about several pro-Palestinian groups to which he belonged.