Former Senator representing Kaduna Central, Shehu Sani, has urged the Nigerian Students in the United States who had their visa cancelled by President Donald Trump to stop hiding and come back home.

MyNigeria learnt that hundreds of international students are being forced to leave the United States after the Trump administration began aggressively revoking student visas.

An email they received from the Department of Homeland Security, shared by immigration lawyer Nicole Micheroni, reads, "“Do not attempt to remain in the United States. The federal government will find you.”

Some students have also been reportedly arrested without prior notice. According to some students, they were not given clear reasons for the arrest.

According to lawyer Dustin Baxter, some of the students targeted never were protesters and or charged with a crime.

“Not only would they revoke the person’s student visa – even if there was no conviction, if there was just an arrest, and sometimes there wasn’t even an arrest, there was just an encounter and maybe a ticket – they would revoke the student visa,” Baxter said as quoted by CNN.

Reacting, Sani urged the "Nigerian students in the US whose visas were cancelled by the Trump administration should stop hiding and come back home to continue their studies."

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