Eve — a pseudonym that is being used for her safety — is now an undergraduate at a U.S. university who has endured about 10 years of hardship as an undocumented person in the country. 

The Trump administration has revoked visas for over 25 international students at universities in the St. Louis area, including St. Louis University and Webster University, as well as terminated the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System (SEVIS) records of select international students at WashU as reported by local news outlets on Tuesday, April 15. The government-run SEVIS database tracks information about non-immigrant students in the US, including their visa status.  

The Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has incited concern among WashU students and faculty, and caused at least one department in the Medical School to send out a document detailing what to do if Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is present on campus. 

The Gephardt Institute hosted a screening of Borderland: The Line Within, a documentary about the struggles of immigrants in the U.S. on Feb. 20.

Even though the waiting and the lack of progress can drag on for a while, the documentary uses it to show the reality of the journey.

Speakers discussed the immigrant experience in the age of Trump at the panel, “Immigration and Racial Rhetoric in Trump’s America,” April 15.

Leaders from three religious communities across the metro area and the International Institute of St. Louis discussed historical and contemporary immigrant and refugee issues in St. Louis in an event hosted by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics in the Women’s Building Formal Lounge Tuesday night.

The panel featured speakers with expertise in the academic study of refugees or who have experience in the resettlement process. The panelists answered questions concerning challenges facing Muslim refugees in the resettlement process, barriers particular to female refugees and the efforts to humanize these challenges.

Starting this semester, Washington University’s law school now offers a clinic in immigration law for second and third-year law students. The clinic is structured to provide students with practical experience representing and counseling non-U.S. citizens in immigration law cases.

Following President Donald Trump’s election in November, Chancellor Mark Wrighton, on behalf of Washington University, released a statement emphasizing the importance of “[continuing] to make progress in enhancing diversity in our community and in creating an environment where all feel welcome.”