Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0on Wednesday announced the United States will “aggressively revoke visas” from Chinese students, including “those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields.”<\/p>\n
The U.S. State Department will work with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to revoke the visas, and it will also “revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications from the People’s Republic of China and Hong Kong,” according to a statement from Rubio<\/a>.<\/p>\n “The U.S. will begin revoking visas of Chinese students, including those with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields,” Rubio said on the social platform X.<\/p>\n The announcement comes a day after the Trump administration directed U.S. embassies and consulates worldwide to pause scheduling visa interviews<\/a> for international students as it mulls expanding “social media screening and vetting” for applicants.<\/p>\n The State Department issued an internal cable Tuesday, signed by Rubio,\u00a0stating that \u201ceffective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M, and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued [separate telegram], which we anticipate in the coming days,\u201d\u00a0multiple<\/a>\u00a0outlets<\/a>\u00a0reported<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n Earlier this year, the\u00a0administration revoked the visas of thousands<\/a>\u00a0of international students. <\/p>\n Immigration and Customs Enforcement later restored more than\u00a01,500 foreign student visa registrations<\/a>\u00a0in its reporting system.<\/p>\n Last week, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) moved to terminate Harvard University\u2019s Student and Exchange Visitor Program, consequently\u00a0barring the Ivy League school<\/a> from enrolling international students. DHS Secretary\u00a0Kristi Noem<\/a> said the international students at Harvard would need to transfer to another institution or risk jeopardizing their legal status.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, President Trump suggested imposing a 15 percent cap on the percentage of foreign students that Harvard University and other U.S. higher education institutions can admit.<\/p>\n The president, while speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, suggested that international students take up too much of the student body and raised issues over some of the foreign students he called \u201ctroublemakers.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThese countries aren\u2019t helping us. They\u2019re not investing in Harvard \u2026 we are. So why would 31 percent \u2014 why would a number so big,\u201d he said. \u201cI think they should have a cap of maybe around 15 percent, not 31 percent.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWe have people [who] want to go to Harvard and other schools, [but] they can\u2019t get in because we have foreign students there. But I want to make sure that the foreign students are people that can love our country. We don\u2019t want to see shopping centers exploding. We don\u2019t want to see the kind of riots that you had,\u201d Trump said. \u201cAnd I\u2019ll tell you what, many of those students didn\u2019t go anywhere. Many of those students were troublemakers caused by the radical left lunatics in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n He also said, without elaborating, that he doesn\u2019t want \u201cradical people\u201d coming to U.S. as students and \u201cmaking trouble in our country.\u201d<\/p>\n Updated at 10:03 p.m. EDT<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Secretary of State\u00a0Marco Rubio\u00a0on Wednesday announced the United States will “aggressively revoke visas” from Chinese…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1901,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1899"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1900,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1899\/revisions\/1900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thetoptenwebhosts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}