The Trump administration has not hidden its hatred of international students – and if that cannot prevent them from coming to the United States, it will find a way to expel them early. The Department of Internal Security has just published a proposed rule This would limit international students to a four -year stay here, regardless of their study program.
There must be a room in the DHS where the interior security secretary Kristi Noem and her happy group of fanatics have just found the worst possible jingeful ideas. In fact, it is probably the vice-president JD Vance reciting his favorite parts of the great theory of replacement and a pile of Groypers taking notes. Regardless of the impulse, there seems to be an almost infinite offer of this kind of thought.
Currently, foreign students can stay Here, as long as they are registered, full -time students. For anyone who does not flash with anti-immigrant racism, it makes sense. Sometimes undergraduate programs take over four years. Sometimes people finish their baccalaureate and move to a master’s program or doctoral. This is how school works. It is not harmful. It is not a Chinese plot or something like that. But according to the Trump administration, having international students stays in the country for more than four years means that they have “benefited from American generosity” and “pose security risks, costing incalculable amounts of dollar taxpayers and disadvantage American citizens”.
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Under the proposed rule, to stay in the past four years, students should be assessed by the DHS. The dozens of pages of the administration who try to justify this simple nativism, always based on the hypothesis that foreign students are ready to engage in a small fraud with light immigration each time they have the opportunity rather than wanting to stay and finish their MBA or PHD. The pasty racists who populate the administration are terrified by pluralism, with the proposed rule describing The admission of international students as something “places research universities and the nation at risk of economic, academic or military spying of foreign students”.
Obligning international students to leave the dropouts of the fifth level fanatic university, the administration finally hires if they can be allowed to stay and finish their diploma is untenable. Even if the administration was not so transparently engaged in mass expulsion, why would a brilliant, impatient and easy foreign student choose to come to a country that could or may not allow you to finish your diploma?
Of course, this administration is transparently engaged in mass expulsion, so what it really looks like is a means for DHS to restrict the discourse, study and activism of foreign students. If they do not have the line of the literal party and do not show enough loyalty to Trump, they have come out. It is not speculation. The administration has already sent a Very clear message With the illegal detection of Rümeysa Öztürk.
Pretending to foreign students is dangerous or that they move American students is not only a xenophobic nonsense – it is also economic nonsense. International students contributed $ 44 billion to the American economy during the 2023-2024 academic year and supported more than 378,000 jobs. Rather than keeping the legitimate spots of Barron Trump, foreign students Generally pay more In tuition fees, obtain less money from scholarships and are not eligible for many forms of financial aid. They are an asset for schools, not a burden.
This decision joins the efforts of the administration to Block schools to offer scholarships for dreamers and Try to prevent Harvard University of the registration of foreign students. And of course, there is the part they already have Missing students who are legally here.
All these terrors have borne fruit. At the start of the 2025-2026 school year school year, there was almost a 50% drop in students from India compared to the previous year. The number of students arriving on visas in July 2025 saw A steep drop out of 28.5% from July 2024.
In fact, this drop could have been greater, because some international students who were already there and currently registered may not have left the United States during the summer to go home or a vacation, because the schools told these students to stay here so that the administration cannot prevent them from coming back.
Uh, doesn’t that make things better? Beautiful work by withdrawing from the world scene, conservatives. Less money, less expertise, less participation in the world community. Make America Great again, indeed.
