Japa: Foreign students in US to face deportation if… — VP Vance

United States Vice President JD Vance has warned that foreign students on student visas might face deportation if their presence in the country is deemed not to align with national interests.

Speaking during an interview on Fox News on Thursday, Vance emphasised that the issue goes beyond free speech and national security, highlighting broader concerns about who is allowed to be part of the American community.

He said that top government officials, like the president and the secretary of state, decide whether foreign students can stay or must leave. If they decide a student has no legal right to stay in the U.S., deportation will be the next step.

Vance warned that more foreign students might be deported under this new policy, but he did not specify the exact number.

He said, “This is not fundamentally about free speech, and to me, yes, it’s about national security, but it’s also more importantly about who do we as an American public decide gets to join our national community.

"And if the secretary of state and the president decide this person shouldn’t be in America, and they have no legal right to stay here, it’s as simple as that.

“I think we’ll certainly see some people who get deported on student visas if we determine that it’s not in the best interest of the United States to have them in our country

He also explained how foreign students affect university finances, saying that many of them pay the full tuition fees. According to him, top universities like Harvard and Columbia often prefer admitting wealthy international students instead of equally qualified American students.

Apart from security concerns, Vance argued that this situation makes it harder for American students to get into top universities because they are replaced by international students who can afford to pay more.

He continued, “A lot of these foreign students, most of them, pay full freight. So sometimes what have you at elite universities like a Columbia or Harvard, you have a well-qualified middle-class American kid from the heartland who doesn’t get a spot in these universities because some Chinese oligarch, who is paying $100,000 a year, takes up that spot.

“So it’s not just bad for national security, it’s bad for the American dream for a lot of kids who want to go to a nice university and can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student. It’s certainly something we are looking at.”