The University of Massachusetts Amherst announced on Friday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has revoked the visas of five international students enrolled at the institution. 

“The university has been informed that over the course of this week, and as of tonight, five international students had their visas revoked and their student statuses terminated by the federal government,” stated UMass Chancellor Javier Reyes in a letter posted on the university’s website. 

“I apologize for sharing this news so late on a Friday; knowing that we learned of some of these revocations this evening, I felt it necessary to convey this concerning information at this time.”

And in late March, an Iranian doctoral student at the University of Alabama, whose visa had been revoked in 2023, was arrested in the middle of the night. 

Although his visa was revoked, he was told he could stay in the U.S. while he remained a student, his lawyer said. 

People gather for a protest in support of Mahmoud Khalil outside a federal courthouse in Newark, N.J., March 28. Khalil’s lawyers are responding to a motion by the government to have Khalil’s case moved to Louisiana. (Stephanie Keith for Fox News Digital)

The Department of Homeland Security said the student, Alireza Doroudi, “posed significant national security concerns.” 

Last month, Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University in Massachusetts, was arrested by immigration officers after she wrote an anti-Israel op-ed for the campus newspaper. 

The Associated Press contributed to this report.