Yesterday's Town Hall on Undocumented & International Students - Addendum

Yesterday, we posted about the UCLA Town Hall on undocumented and international students, including a recording thereof. One of the points we noted was a statement that in the past week, UCLA knew of no additional students with revoked visas. (That is, there were no more than had been previously known.) But it appears that there was some news during the past week which UCLA was aware of before the Town Hall.

According to the LA Times, a female UCLA student was detained last week trying to cross back into the US from Mexico.* The LA Times quotes Mary Osako, the emcee for the Town Hall, in the article which is dated yesterday at 10:44 AM. The Town Hall followed at 2 PM.

Technically, it is not clear that the detention at the border was due to a revoked visa. But still, the message that nothing new had recently happened was misleading.

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*“UCLA has learned that an international graduate student was detained by United States Customs and Border Protection while attempting to enter the United States from Mexico,” Mary Osako, UCLA vice chancellor for strategic communications, said in a statement to The Times. “The student remains in the custody of CBP and we are actively working to learn more information. Our international students are an essential part of our Bruin community, and we remain fully committed to supporting their ability to learn and thrive at UCLA.” Source: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2025-04-17/ucla-international-student-detained-us-mexico-border.