Chinese students are expressing anxiety after Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the Trump administration would begin to “aggressively revoke visas” from scholars within the demographic.

This is a “new version of Chinese Exclusion Act,” Linqin, a Chinese student at Johns Hopkins, told the Associated Press. He asked the outlet to identify him only by first name out of fear of retaliation.

The 143-year-old law was used to issue an absolute 10-year ban on Chinese laborers immigrating to the U.S. and certain provisions within the law remained in place until 1943 — when U.S. officials capped the yearly limit of Chinese immigrants at 105.

Students studying abroad from Asia have voiced their concerns that similar confines will be put in place.

China is the second-largest count

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