Posted on 04/21/2025 5:21:54 AM PDT by Red Badger
Hundreds of students and recent graduates have seen their visas revoked by immigration officials since United States President Donald Trump took office for a second time on January 20, 2025, with several also arrested.
Many of the targets of the visa revocations and arrests are students who participated in pro-Palestine protests which erupted on campuses across the country in 2024 amid Israel’s brutal war on Gaza. Others are individuals with more indirect links to Palestine – or those who have shown support for Gaza on social media.
The Trump administration alleges that these students spread anti-Semitism and pro-Hamas sentiment on campus – a claim students, lawyers and activists have all rebutted. Jewish activists and groups have been at the forefront of many of the most prominent protests in the US against the Gaza war.
Others have had visas removed after minor legal infractions – a speeding ticket or other traffic violations, for instance.
Here’s what we know about the scale of visa revocations, the number of universities they span and some of the students who have been targeted:
How many students have had their visas revoked? In late March, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the administration had revoked an estimated 300 student visas.
But the real number is higher – much higher.
Estimates vary. At the higher end is the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s count, according to which more than 4,700 students have been removed from the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement-maintained database known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information Systems (SEVIS).
Yet even more conservative tabulations point to a number comfortably more than 1,000. The National Association of Foreign Student Advisers (NAFSA) estimates that as of April 17, there are reports of about 1,400 students who now face deportation.
Any non-citizen supporting terrorism needs to go. If they hate this country that much, they should not be here.
Go home!
There's a difference between "rebutted" and "denied." Also, America has laws on foreigners visiting America. Our laws either mean something or they don't. If laws concerning immigration mean nothing, then no laws are valid.
Article written as if it’s a BAD thing.
Of course considering the source that stands to reason.
“Any non-citizen supporting terrorism needs to go.”
Unless they’re MAGA, and not faking it, ALL non-citizens involving themselves in US politics need to go.
The author attempts to find our sympathy button because these poor people are in “limbo.” They most likely were given a set of options when they were notified. Incidentally, I find the author’s use of limbo hilarious as he probably has no clue what it references.
“The “Limbo of the Patriarchs” or “Limbo of the Fathers” (Latin limbus patrum) is seen as the temporary state of those who, despite the sins they may have committed, died in the friendship of God but could not enter heaven until redemption by Jesus Christ made it possible.”
“Who are the targets?” THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE THE TARGETS, BOZO.
” and find themselves in limbo.”
Not in limbo at all, unless they are in from limbo
Ditto.
“amid Israel’s brutal war on Gaza.”
Love the bias there.
Good riddance to bad rubbish!
So how many of those “students” are carrying “From the river to the sea” posters?
Any non-citizen supporting terrorism needs to go. If they hate this country that much, they should not be here.
Go home!
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Took the words right out of my mind! Get ‘em out of here, like NOW!
More winning.
...Keep your vendettas and disputes on the other side of the Atlantic...
Not enough is reported about the number of illegal aliens who overstay their visas. They should get swept up in the mass deportation too.
Translation: Mostly people on students visas who are no longer students
The one thing American colleges and universities are not are centers of patriotism. They love foreign students. $$$
There should be a strict limit on how many foreign students a college or university may enroll per year. Some countries should be ineligible........
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