Rubio Repeats Student Deportation Policy at Trump Cabinet Meeting: ‘No One’s Entitled to a Student Visa’
“The press covers student visas like they’re some sort of birthright. No, a student visa is like me inviting you into my home.”
During Trump’s cabinet meeting on Thursday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio repeated the Trump administration’s policy on revocation of student visas. Rubio noted that despite the media’s preferred narrative, getting a student visa is not a human right and that no one is entitled to one.
He also stressed the fact that students who are here to study and obtain a degree are welcome, and that it is only the radical ‘lunatic’ students who are dealing with the consequences of a revoked visa.
Transcript via Real Clear Politics:
Every country in the world has to take back people that are illegally in another country. And we have countries that refuse to do it or kind of ignore our calls. All of them are doing it.
The ones that are not are paying a price. And we’ve also found cooperation in other countries that are willing to take some of these people, some very dangerous criminals. I know the President of El Salvador will be here next week, has really been a good friend of the United States in that regard.
These are some of the worst people you’ll ever encounter. And Pam knows this, and Christine knows this from the work they’re doing. And one last point I want to make, Mr. President – and again, it’s under your leadership, it’s actually under your executive order – if you come to this country as a student, we expect you to go to class and study and get a degree. If you come here to, like, vandalize a library, take over a campus, and do all kinds of crazy things, you know, we’re going to get rid of these people. And we’re going to continue to do it. So when we identify lunatics like these, we take away their student visa.
No one’s entitled to a student visa. The press covers student visas like they’re some sort of birthright. No, a student visa is like me inviting you into my home.
If you come into my home and put all kinds of crap on my couch, I’m going to kick you out of my house. And so, you know, that’s what we’re doing with our country, thanks to the president.
Here’s the video:
Rubio is exactly right about the media narrative. Over at The Hill, this is being described as a “purge.”
Hundreds of students, dozens of colleges hit by Trump’s visa purge: What to know
Hundreds of foreign students at dozens of colleges across the country have had their higher education experience turned upside down as the Trump administration has expanded its immigration crackdown beyond those involved in the pro-Palestinian protests.
International students are seeing their visas revoked for infractions as minor as traffic violations, while colleges are having to check immigration databases to find out whether their students are still allowed to be in the country.
Ivy League universities, state schools and community colleges have all been impacted as students decide whether to find legal counsel or leave the country before Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) comes for them…
An Inside Higher Ed tracker has the number of colleges and universities affected by the visa revocations at more than 80, including public and private institutions in a wide range of locations and sizes.
This is very simple. Students who are here to attend college should have no fear of deportation. It is only the radical element, students who come here to make trouble, take over buildings and destroy who are subject to this policy. It’s called being a good guest.
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“getting a student visa is not a human right and that no one is entitled to one.”
Not entitled??? The Dem party will do a collective melt down about noon today.
Which is different from any other day how?
Maybe it’s just me but not only should students who promote Hamas through disruptive protests be thrown out of the country, those who support them should be in the seat beside them. What Hamas did on that day was utterly subhuman, despicable and unforgivable. What Israel is doing to avenge the attack to prevent such monstrous atrocities from ever happening again is 100% alright with me.
OMG! All Enemies of America are entitled to everything, as long as they donate to Democrats and vote for them. They are the Democrat brownshirts.
No topless troons on WH lawn; no mentally ill crossdressers at the podium; no ‘murica haters; no criminal lovers; no depraved indifferent enablers of child trafficking; no dementia patients pretending to govern.
Eighty-two days ago. 82. Elections have consequences. The adults are back in charge, and I’m loving every minute of it.
You forgot the luggage theft, man.
That is not a man, it it is a self professed IT.
Troon luggage thief. Good catch. And interns sodomizing each other in senate chambers. It went on and on. What a wretched hive of scum and villany. Good grief. Never again.
If you asked me to estimate the last time Donald Trump enjoyed an ice cream cone, my guess would be not since Inauguration Day,
No one is entitled to any sort of visa. A visa is a manifestation of the US extending its national hospitality. A nation may extend, withhold or withdraw its hospitality as it sees fit. The Constitution gives that power to the Congress which passed laws delegating a lot of that authority to the Executive Branch.
Thank you, Secretary Rubio.
The level of entitlement among some is truly off the charts. Only US Citizens are immune from deportation, even then, under certain narrow conditions, a Naturalized Citizen can have the conferred Citizenship revoked and be deported. Big distinction between Citizens and non Citizens.
under certain narrow conditions
You mean like lying to get in here, then marrying your brother to get him here, also?
If proven, that would qualify, even if the subject is politically prominent.
Those narrow restrictions should be widened.
Don’t tell Milhouse. He is under the mistaken impression that once a person is naturalized they cannot be deported for any reason despite Federal Law being very clear they can under several circumstances.
He knows. Those narrow conditions pretty much come down to fraud in the application for Citizenship.
Been pleasantly surprised by Rubio…
Could this be an example of not having to be worried about getting reelected?
It seems a sense of entitlement is not confined to American adolescents (of any age).
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Setting aside the general entitlement mentality, NO ONE outside America is entitled to ANYTHING in or from America. PERIOD.
The only obligations we have to non-Americans is set by treaty (as properly defined in the Constitution: if the Senate hasn’t ratified it, it ain’t a treaty). And we can un-ratify treaties if it turns out to be necessary.
Hopefully the era of Progressive globalism is ending, and we can get back to making America the greatest, instead of being the world’s mommy (or its annoying aunt).
The notion of “students visas are a privilege, not a right” is brain-dead obvious, so of course the leftists are going to bitch and moan about it.
Colleges are faced with issues of high cost for students, less students, too many classes and professors, and needs of keeping up the gravy train. The American population is declining in amounts of student they send to college plus the quality of the education.
Colleges are looking for more and more foreign students to give them the financial gain. The problems with the foreign students are that they often are radicals and with the Trump Admin they will be sent back to their original country. Presently China has a great amount of students in American colleges but if the trade issue keeps up this may also cause their visas to be cancelled.
China is not our friend. Each student is essentially a spy since china holds their relatives hostage, Cancel all chinese student visas now.
China rewards their spies well though. All the Chinese students at my university wore expensive clothes, had the latest Apple tech, and drove new Porsches and Mercedes-Benzes. They lived in the best apartments and townhouses my town has. They never talked to American students unless it was for an assignment.
Where do I sign up? I can be a double or quadruple spy.
A double nought spy like Jethro?
I will never admit to having watch Beverly Hillbillies (last week).
I read very recently that there are over 275,000 Chinese “students” in the USA at any time. And they still have to steal American technology from American companies in China?
It’s a shame that democrats and many of our judges can’t seem to discriminate between rights and privileges.
That’s because they’ve been so long converting our rights into privileges that it doesn’t occur to them that the concepts aren’t malleable.
If these long-overdue actions are deemed by the vile and dishonest Dhimmi-crat media to constitute an alleged “purge,” I’d say that we need more purges of subversive, Jew-hating and terrorism-supporting Islamofascists/Muslim supremacist foreign students.
Not only that, many students lie to get their student visas. They have to say they have strong ties in their home countries and intend to return after graduation. If they change their minds, it’s sort of OK, but when almost all of them “change their minds” and go for H1B status, then other status to stay in the US, it means most of these applicants are lying.
Trump wants to keep them all here. I don’t. Sending them back would advantage American students over them, which we should do. It would also punish universities because their full-pay opportunities would become less attractive to rich foreign students deciding where to study. That should happen now too. How else do we dismantle the universities?
They talk about dismantling us (dismantling colonialism, dismantling racism, dismantling this and that). We should dismantle them before they dismantle us.
I don’t mind keeping some of them provided they are STEM and from allied countries.
Not all but the best of the best.
“International students are seeing their visas revoked for infractions as minor as traffic violations”
Traffic violations like what – DUI? Reckless?
According to Mr. Google, there are 1.1 million international students in the USA. Revoking 600 visas is in the statistical noise.
They are not “pro-Palestinian” protest. They are pro-Holocaust protests.