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Exclusive: Foreign department Fox News Digital has learned, in 2025 more than 6,000 student visas for overseas and law violations – including support for terrorism.
The Trump administration has initiated several initiatives for the purpose of cancellation of immigration and visas of those participating in educational institutions in the US.
Those who have publicly opposed Palestine who have publicly opposed Palestine, have faced investigation as an example, and as the Secretary of State. Marco Rubio In May, the administration was reviewing the visa status of the students who participated in the pro -Palestine protest.
Around 6,000 visas that were mainly drawn were due to visa overstays or encounters with laws, including the attack, DUIS, theft and support for terrorism, the Foreign Department told Fox News Digital.
A senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News Digital, “Every student visa, canceled under the Trump administration, has done so because the person has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism in the United States.” “Around 4,000 visas have been canceled alone as these visitors broke the law while visiting our country, including the attacks and records of the deus.”
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State Secretary Marco Rubio testifies before the Senate Committee on foreign relations, who are hearing for hearing on the Capital Hill in Washington to investigate the President’s proposed budget request for the financial year 2026 for the state department, on Tuesday, May 20, 2025. (Jose Louis Magana/Associated Press)
According to the official of the state department, people who had their student visas, due to the attack – either faced arrest or faced allegations arising from the attack.
Whose visas were drawn due to the support of terrorism – among 200 people among 300 people – the militant groups were engaged in behavior like raising money for Hamas, which the US State Department has nominated as a terrorist organization, said the official.
Overall, the State Department told Fox News Digital that about 40,000 visas have been drawn this year, compared to 16,000, which were canceled during the same time limit under the Biden administration.
The State Department official said, “Even if the previous administration was reducing, he was still canceling the visa.” “This is not something that started on 20 January … so it has been over the years.”
Rubio told MPs in May that he estimated that the “thousands of” of the student visa were canceled from January.
“I do not know the latest count, but we probably have more to more,” Rubio told MPs on Senate Appropriation that the sub -committee on 20 May overseas foreign affairs.
However, Democrats have pushed back the trump administration’s effort to cancel the visa, saying that it is a violation of the appropriate process.
“I think this is a fundamental attack on freedom, as the fixed process is the patron of the gate to prevent a government from removing people’s life or freedom, and Liberty occurs when you take a visa without a procedure,” Sen Jeff Mercley, D-Ore told on 20 May.
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Sen Jeff Markle (D-Ore.) Called the State Department a “Fundamental attack on freedom” as the student visa. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Image)
A student visa allows people from outside the US to study in the country for a scheduled time at an educational institution. It is different from a green card, which already allows a person in the US who is not an American citizen to live in the country.
Several executive orders signed in January align on the student visa with President Donald Trump, which aims to compete with the US with the aim of protecting the US from foreign terrorists and other national security threats.
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President Donald Trump signed an executive order on Thursday, January 30, 2025 at the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US. (Bonnie Cash/UPI/Bloomberg through Getty Image)
One of the executive orders instructed the State Department, as well as the Director of the Department of Homeland Security, Attorney General, and the National Intelligence Department for all the aliens possible to “Weet and Screen, which are already entering, entering or already entering the United States, or already coming from those coming from those coming from those coming from those coming from those coming or nations.”
A separate executive order Trump signed, ordered the US to “use all available and appropriate legal equipment, prosecute, remove or otherwise to take into account criminals of anti -anti -anti -anti -anti -opponent harassment and violence.”
