Posted on 04/19/2025 2:30:44 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
For the last few weeks, many foreign students living in the US have watched as a sequence of events has repeated itself on their social media feeds: plain-clothes agents appearing unannounced and hauling students off in unmarked cars to detention centres.
The combination of targeted detentions and reports of wide-scale visa revocations have left campuses on edge, from the biggest public universities to elite Ivy League institutions.
"I could be next," said one student visa-holder attending Georgetown University, who has written articles about Israel and the war in Gaza.
Another student in Texas said he's afraid to leave his apartment, even to buy groceries.
And at some colleges, departments are being hit as researchers abroad refuse to return to the US.
The reasons for visa cancellations vary. In some cases, criminal records appear to be a factor. Other instances have reportedly included minor legal infractions like driving over the speed limit. But "a lot" of those targeted have been involved in pro-Palestinian protests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio himself has said.
It is part of a wider White House push to crack down on protesters whom officials say created an unsafe environment for Jewish students on many campuses. They also accuse demonstrators of having expressed support for Hamas, an officially designated terrorist group.
"Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas," Rubio told reporters in late March. "We do it every day."
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Take away visas?
So they can’t “overstay”?
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Come into this country on a student visa with the sole intent of creating trouble and you will get a degree in FAFO.
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
“This is the hand of the man that the Democrats feel should be brought back to the United States, because he is such “a fine and innocent person.”
They said he is not a member of MS-13, even though he’s got MS-13 tattooed onto his knuckles, and two Highly Respected Courts found that he was a member of MS-13, beat up his wife, etc.
I was elected to take bad people out of the United States, among other things. I must be allowed to do my job. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!”
Hopefully they worry themselves right onto the next flight back to wherever they came from. More so the Hamas lovers and the Chinese spies, err I mean “Students”
Awe.........................so sad
Music to my ears. ‘BYE!
Somebody call the waaambulance.
CC
How are the America hating campii turds going to destroy America if the Government is allowed to throw them out?
Revoke all Foreign students .
Ban all Travel from China Russia Iran and other enemy countries .
I stopped reading when they quoted unnamed officials. Total gossip.
Domestic college students are perpetually full of anxiety already.
Would you consider going to school in Germany with the thought that you were going to demonstrate and tell the German government how it ought to conduct itself?
Well likewise, don’t come over to the US to get a degree and waste your time telling us what to do. Come over here, study your heart out, get your degree and go home.
The entire student visa program should be scrapped anyways. Maybe some exceptional students could be allowed in but that would be a pretty small number
It’s a cash cow for universities. They pay out of state tuition
Colleges violate all kinds of rules and laws as they have far too many foreign students.
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