Trump admin revokes 4K foreign students' visas in first 100 days, nearly all with serious criminal records

The State Department revoked the visas of 4,000 overseas students – 90% of whom person superior transgression records – during the archetypal 100 days of President Donald Trump's 2nd term, a elder State Department authoritative confirmed to Fox News Digital.

"Our visa strategy has lacked oversight and accountability," a elder State Department authoritative told Fox News Digital. "Over the past 100 days, the Trump Administration has worked to hole a breached system."

"Secretary [Marco] Rubio has led the State Department to instrumentality a surgical vetting attack to guarantee individuals successful America arsenic visitors are abiding by ours laws," the root said. "We established an enactment moving group, which has resulted successful thousands of visas being revoked due to the fact that these individuals broke our laws. This is what effectual governance looks like."

Those superior crimes included arson, wildlife and quality trafficking, kid endangerment, home abuse, driving nether the power and robbery, according to the New York Post, which archetypal reported the number. 

More than 500 of those impacted students whose visas were revoked person transgression battle records, according to the Post. 

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Thousands of pupil visas person been revoked successful the archetypal 100 days of President Donald Trump's 2nd term. (Felipe Ramales for Fox News Digital)

"They came, and they were breaking the instrumentality with nary consequences," a root said to the Post. "We acceptable up a peculiar enactment squad to grip this."

When reached by Fox News Digital, a State Department spokesperson said the section "revokes visas each time successful bid to unafraid America's borders and support our communities harmless – and volition proceed to bash so." 

"Because the process is ongoing, the fig of revocations is dynamic," the spokesperson said, explaining that the section "generally does not supply statistic connected visa revocations."

"The Trump Administration is focused connected protecting our federation and our citizens by upholding the highest standards of nationalist information and nationalist information done our visa process," the spokesperson continued. "Every prospective traveler to the United States undergoes interagency information vetting. Prohibiting introduction to the United States by those who mightiness airs a menace to U.S. nationalist information oregon nationalist information is cardinal to protecting U.S. citizens astatine home. The Department of State volition proceed to enactment intimately with the Department of Homeland Security to enforce zero tolerance for aliens successful the United States who interruption U.S. laws, endanger nationalist safety, oregon successful different situations wherever warranted. " 

The State Department coordinated with the Department of Homeland Security, utilizing their databases to cross-check pupil visa holders' accusation with existing instrumentality enforcement records, according to the Post. 

Officials said the State Department is lone revoking visas for planetary students who committed superior crimes, the Post reported.

A idiosyncratic walks connected field astatine the University of Minnesota successful Minneapolis. An planetary postgraduate pupil astatine the University of Minnesota was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs owed to a DUI crime. (Glenn Stubbe/Star Tribune)

"There were cases similar wherever it was not a superior thing, similar littering, oregon idiosyncratic had charges that were dropped, wherever we didn’t revoke those," a root said to the outlet. "Because it should beryllium a superior matter."

The impacted students, who mostly came from Asia and the Middle East, had either departed connected their ain oregon volition soon beryllium deported by migration agents, the Post reported.

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In caller weeks, hundreds of visas person been revoked for planetary students with ties to anti-Israel protests, according to the State Department.

The waves of visa revocations began arsenic portion of Trump’s deportation docket and crackdown connected overseas pupil visa holders who led on-campus protests against Israel.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said planetary students should beryllium fixed a visa lone to study, not to "create a ruckus for us." (Evan Vucci)

Secretary of State Marco Rubio antecedently said visas should beryllium fixed to students who privation "to travel and survey and get a degree."

"If you travel into the United States arsenic a visitant and make a ruckus for us, we don’t privation it," Rubio said. 

Rubio specifically cited pupil visa holders who travel to the U.S. and "vandalize a library" oregon "take implicit a campus." 

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"So erstwhile we place lunatics similar these, we instrumentality distant their pupil visa," helium said astatine an April 10 Cabinet gathering portion sitting adjacent to Trump. "No one's entitled to a pupil visa. The property covers pupil visas similar there's immoderate benignant of birthright. No, a pupil visa is similar maine inviting you into my home. If you travel into my location and enactment each kinds of crap connected my couch, I'm going to footwear you retired of my house. And so, you know, that's what we're doing with our state acknowledgment to the president."