International students are finding out that in the new era, committing crimes and supporting terrorism might not be such a good idea if they wish to study in the United States.
To wit: the State Department has pulled more than 6,000 student visas for overstays, law violations, and fomenting terroristic views so far in 2025. Protest against the country that welcomes you in all you want, but understand that it might come with a price:
The Trump administration has launched multiple initiatives aimed at cracking down on immigration and revoking visas of those attending academic institutions in the U.S.
Those who’ve participated in pro-Palestinian protests have faced heightened scrutiny, as one example, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in May that the administration was reviewing the visa status of those students.
Rubio’s not messing around:
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If you come here and get a DUI, commit crimes, or come out in support for terrorism, the rules have now changed with the advent of the Trump administration:
The roughly 6,000 visas that were pulled were primarily due to visa overstays or encounters with the law, including assault, DUIs, burglary and support for terrorism, the State Department told Fox News Digital.
“Every single student visa revoked under the Trump Administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States,” a senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “About 4,000 visas alone have been revoked because these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including records of assault and DUIs.”
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt took note:
Rubio’s State Department yanks more than 6K student visas due to assault, burglary, support for terrorismhttps://t.co/liElSgIbhp
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) August 18, 2025
As my colleague Teri Christoph reported Saturday, Rubio also put a halt to a visa program that allowed residents of Gaza to enter the United States for “medical-humanitarian” reasons.
SEE: State Department Halts Visas for Gaza Residents After Alarming Influx of Families Coming to U.S.
Christoph wrote:
This comes after videos of large groups of Gazans—often decked out in “Palestinian” flags and keffiyehs associated with the terror group Hamas—arriving at airports across the nation began popping up on social media in the last few weeks.
According to this State Department tweet, the program is being paused while officials review the “process and procedures” that have allowed a stream of injured children from Gaza, often accompanied by several family members, into the country. Whether or not these families have been properly vetted is anyone’s guess at this point.
Rubio has brought home an important point during his tenure as SOS: folks aren’t simply “entitled” to a visa. In this new era, if you don’t have the best interests of the United States in mind, you might just find yourself with a one-way ticket back home.
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