A.G. Gancarski
Secretary of State Marco Rubio continues to take a hard line on student visas, arguing that the “burden of proof” is with the applicant to prove they deserve to be in the U.S.
“No one is entitled to a student visa to enter the United States. No one. It’s not a constitutional right. It’s not a law. Every day, consular officers on the ground in face-to-face interviews are denying people visas for all kinds of reasons — because we think you’re going to overstay, because we think your family member is a member of a drug ring, whatever it may be. We deny visas every day all over the world,” Rubio told radio host Ben Shapiro.
“No one is entitled to a visa. Let’s start with that, because I hear some of this reporting out there like if somehow … you’re allowed to have a visa unless we can come up with a reason why you shouldn’t have one. That’s not true. The burden of proof is the other way.”
Rubio said students should be willing to prove they don’t back groups antithetical to American foreign policy aims.
“Now, let’s say you go to a window somewhere in the world and say, ‘I want to go to the United States to study at a university,’ and as part of that interview it comes out you think Hamas is actually a good group. We probably would not let you in. I would hope we wouldn’t let you in,” Rubio said.
“But let’s say we don’t ask you that question and you get into the U.S. on a student visa, and all of a sudden it becomes obvious you think Hamas is a good group. Well, then we should revoke your visa.”
The issue, Rubio added, is one of “national interest.”
“It is not in the national interest of the United States — it’s not in our foreign policy interest, it’s not in our national security interest — to invite people onto our university campuses who are not just going to go there to study physics or engineering, but who are also going to go there to foment movements that support and excuse foreign terrorist organizations who are committed to the destruction of the United States and the killing and the raping and the kidnapping of innocent civilians, not just in Israel, but anywhere they can get their hands on them,” Rubio said.
“That’s not in our national interest.”
9 comments
Foghorn Leghorn
April 18, 2025 at 7:03 am
Not only did Joe and Kammy open up the floodgates at the Southern Border, they also opened up the floodgates of the student visa program which allowed radicals and activists into this country to do nothing more than burn American flags, deface college campuses and harass Jewish students. Most of them probably don’t even attend class. Professional agitators that should be removed and or denied entry.
Michael K
April 18, 2025 at 9:11 am
Translation: Forget about international exchange – unless you are white, rich, and willing to pledge fealty to Trump.
Foghorn Leghorn
April 18, 2025 at 9:37 am
I don’t care what color you are or your financial status is. If you are coming here to study and get a degree then great. If you are here because you are sponsored by an organization to deface buildings, burn American flags, and threaten other students then get the PHUCK out.
Michael K
April 18, 2025 at 9:50 am
Just take a look at the international students who are being deported. Take a look at the countries they come from. Take a look at the flimsy reasons given for their abrupt arrests by unmarked officers and carried away in unmarked vans. Take a look at who they are.
Hint: They are not Scandinavians or Norwegians.
Foghorn Leghorn
April 18, 2025 at 9:59 am
Are the Scandinavians and Norwegians burning, looting, defacing, and harassing people at college campuses?
JD
April 18, 2025 at 10:37 am
Ah, a propaganda purveyor.
Peachy, the moniker changling, we are tired of the BS. All you have is emotional buzz-words and NEVER a solution. You are poor conservative. Grifter more likely.
“Kammy and Biden” didn’t open up the southern border and you know it. More were caught under that admin and turned away then all of Trump’s years. So stop lying without facts.
You are part of the machine of propaganda. Gobbels would be proud
Michael K
April 18, 2025 at 11:04 am
Because of their multiple personas, a more precise moniker for it is Miss Information.
Bill Pollard
April 18, 2025 at 1:08 pm
People with no IDs forcibly seizing people off the streets and shoving them into unmarked vans sounds like a Gestapo tactic. They have no legal recourse and no right to defend themselves. Now tell me with a straight face this administration is NOT using fascist tactics.
MH/Duuuval
April 18, 2025 at 8:34 pm
This does raise an important question: Who are these masked men and what do they want?
Definitely not charm school grads nor do they seem to understand civl liberties.