Aug 19, 2025
REPORT: 6,000 STUDENT VISAS REVOKED BY STATE DEPARTMENT
The State Department has revoked more than 6,000 international student visas, but the reason remains unclear.
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You may be a great candidate.
Then I'll find that you were doing this.
Or fighting the police or whatever it was.
I'll put that resume on the left
into the garbage, because I know I can
find someone else just as good as you.
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Of which there are tens
of thousands of candidates
that didn't participate in this.
You are trashing your future.
It's being shot on 1080p and 4K video
and from surveillance cameras
with extremely high resolution.
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In low light conditions,
including retinal scanning,
this is what's happened with A.I..
Well, those are the types of threats
student protesters were met with
after they were horrified to learn
of the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip
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carried out by the Israeli military.
And, not only did they face those threats
from the business community,
which could have totally destroyed
their futures post college,
international students who took part,
would be labeled as terrorists
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by our own federal government
and have their student visas revoked.
Now, I give you that background
because the State Department has announced
that they've revoked student visas
for more than 6000 international students,
claiming that foreign students
who had their visas revoked either broke
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the law in some way or were found to be,
supporters of terrorism.
So this is based on exclusive reporting
over at the BBC.
They wanted to understand, you know, which
students are having their visas revoked,
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how many international students
have had their visas revoked?
And here's what they've learned.
So of the 6000 visas that were revoked,
the State Department alleges
that 4000 were due to the student visitors
essentially breaking laws.
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The agency said that the vast majority
of the violations were assault,
driving under the influence,
burglary and support for terrorism.
So again, we know that 4000, according to
the State Department, were for individuals
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who allegedly broke the law.
Another 200 to 300 visas were revoked
due to terrorism done under I3B,
which refers to code that defines
terrorist activity broadly as acts that
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endanger human life or violate US law.
Really, we had 300 international students
in the country that were
engaged in support for terrorism,
that put our lives in jeopardy.
You want to talk about the Israeli
official who got let go after getting
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caught in a sting operation,
trying to have sex with a 15 year old kid?
Come on.
Yeah. Come on.
So, look, guys, this is, you know,
supporters of Israel saying, we own you.
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If you criticize Israel,
we will make sure that you never work.
I mean, Kevin O'Leary
was super clear, right?
We're going to do a terror
campaign in America.
If you criticize Israel
for slaughtering children,
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we're going to put you on a blacklist of
good people will never hire because we're
all disgusting pigs who love genocide.
That's Kevin O'Leary's list.
That's Bill Ackman's list.
Get back to him in a minute.
So now, on top of that.
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Oh, you have maimed Palestinian children
who we paid to maim.
Right. And, and and they barely survived.
And they desperately need
medical attention.
But Laura Loomer said
we should send them back.
So let's invent reasons to send them back.
Let's call people terrorists.
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Because you know what the real like
Israel has killed 60 times
the number of civilians Hamas has.
They're obviously
a much worse terrorist organization.
It's not even close.
They've killed more than 500 times
the number of children.
They're disgusting terrorists
in that government.
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But let's work for them.
And if you if you criticize them
or you've been maimed by them,
we're going to call you the terrorist.
It's just truth on its head.
It's George Orwell, 1984.
Define. We're living in 1984.
So while the State Department
did not specify what they meant
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by support for terrorism, of.
Course they didn't.
They meant Palestinian, Arab or Muslim.
- Or, by the way, Christian Palestinians.
- As we all know.
The Trump administration has targeted
some students who have protested in
support of Palestine, which really, really
ruffles the feathers of Benjamin Netanyahu
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and other figures within.
Kevin O'Leary and Bill Ackman
and American businessmen who create
blacklists of decent, moral people
who they'll never hire because they don't
want anybody moral working for them.
I mean, if they're going
to go rob you on Wall Street,
they don't want you to have any morals.
So there's a little bit of logic actually,
to their list.
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Yeah.
I mean, I guess a lot of logic,
but we have a constitution.
Our Constitution protects everyone
within our borders,
including students who are visa holders.
So the idea that their political speech
should be punished
because it hurts the feelings of members
of the business community or members
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of the Israeli government, is pretty sick.
Now, look, I would like further
clarification from the State Department
because, you know, they say
that they've revoked 6000 visas, 4000
for for individuals who broke the law.
I have no problem with people having
their visas revoked if they broke the law.
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Okay. But that leaves another.
What? 2000 and of those, 2300 had their
visas revoked due to support for
terrorism, which I don't believe at all.
What about the rest?
So there's a lack of transparency here.
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And using student visas or revoking
student visas as a form of punishment
for political speech is a huge problem,
especially if that's being directed
by a foreign country.
And again,
we don't have enough clarity here.
They gave the BBC some information.
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By the way, let's note that the BBC
is an international news organization.
I find it hilarious that American
organizations haven't dug into this story
to find the more granular details
about the student visas being revoked.
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Now, Trump halted scheduling visa
appointments for international students
earlier this year,
but he has reinstated the policy
allowing for these student visas to be,
you know, for the applications to be
looked into and allow for international
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students to come into the country.
But it would require enhanced screening,
including making any private
social media accounts public.
So the State Department can, you know,
read through it to make sure there's
no support for the Palestinian people
and nothing but support for Israel.
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They said that they would search
for any indications of hostility
toward the citizens, culture,
government institutions or founding
principles of the United States.
State Department officers
were also instructed to screen for those
who advocate for aid or support
designated foreign terrorists
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and other threats to national security,
or who perpetuate unlawful
anti-Semitic harassment or violence.
And as we know, I mean,
the simplest things are considered
anti-Semitic in this country.
Things like denouncing genocide,
for instance,
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or having a corner store in New York City
that's called the Gaza convenience store.
I heard that a lot of, you know,
people in New York City,
Jewish New Yorkers, were very offended
by that, and they felt unsafe.
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I don't know what to say.
Like, how are you going to complain
about feeling unsafe when you
simply see the name of a corner store
and it contains Gaza in it,
when the country you support is bombing,
maiming and slaughtering children?
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Like how tone deaf can people be?
Anyway, that's the final thing
I have to say about this story.
- But it's just sick.
- Yeah.
So, look, guys,
there are no movements to expel people
who criticize Finland or Peru.
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Or major powers
like Germany, Japan, China, Russia.
There's no ally enemy. It doesn't matter.
There's only one country you're
not allowed to criticize in America.
And funny enough, it's not America.
It's a different country. It's Israel.
And we should be allowed
to criticize America.
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Of course we have freedom of speech here.
But do we really have freedom of speech?
Because if we speak.
But it's about Israel.
Well that's it. Get out of here.
You're arrest.
Deport, take away their diplomas.
Terrorize them.
Make sure they never get a job,
haunt them for the rest of their lives
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for being decent moral human beings, etc..
So we don't really First Amendment.
They should put an asterisk on it
unless you criticize Israel.
And by the way, now, the modern day
definitions of anti-Semitism as
made up by a bunch of Israeli supporters
that are totally trashed,
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they I mean, nothing at all.
Are loaded with any criticism
of Israel is anti-Semitism?
Yeah.
Any criticism of a political ideology?
Zionism is considered anti-Semitic. Why?
Why? I mean.
Zionism, Zionism is.
Let me take your land.
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Hold on and let me kill you
and take your land.
So there are a ton of evangelical
Christians who are Zionists.
So, like, let's stop pretending
and let's stop conflating, okay,
what Israel is doing with Judaism
and Jews across the globe,
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because it just that conflation
is intentional and I think defamatory
to Jews across the globe.
Yeah.
Anyway, and I'm allowed to say anything
I want about Zionism because it's America.
There's no goddamn asterisks,
no matter how much they want it.
And what's hilarious and a sick joke
is people like Bill Ackman
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and Alex Karp, the head of Palantir.
I saw him in to give
this giant speech over the weekend.
Listen to an hour of him talking
about we're for freedom of speech.
Right, right right.
But but but but but but but but
on college campuses.
Alex, this is Alex Karp.
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They should they should
not be allowed to speak.
Bill Ackman writing letters
that I mentioned earlier
to Harvard and other places.
How dare you get back in line. Okay.
No one should be allowed
to criticize Israel.
I mean, sure, Jews are.
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By the way, why aren't people allowed
to criticize anyone they like?
What kind of new rule is this?
No. It's there.
It's so obvious. It's so obvious.
There's one country that controls us.
It's not a people.
There's nobody asked
a Jewish American randomly.
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Hey, Dave, what would you like us
to do with the country?
That's not how it works.
Okay. It is a foreign government.
And there are people inside this country
who love that foreign government and way
more than they love our country way more.
And say that we should all work for them.
No thank you.
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