US authorities canceled the visas for 6,000 strangers students After the rules were made much more stringent by decisions by Donald Trump’s government. The Republican president states that he will tackle illegal immigration and the one who characterizes anti -Semitism.
The main reason was “overcoming the duration of their approved residence” and “law violations”, a State Department official said Monday (18.08.2025) for visas that had 6,000 foreign students, speaking.
He stressed that in their “great majority” students from whom passports were removed were accused of “attacks”, “drunken driving”, “theft” and “support of terrorism”.
About “4,000 of these 6,000 visas were canceled because visitors (their students) violated the law,” he said.
The US Secretary of State, Mark Rubio He also canceled the visas of many students who organized or participated in mobilizations against the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip.
Last March, he announced that he was canceling daily passports, stressing about foreign students demonstrating the issue that “every time I find any of these naughty people, I will remove his visa”.
By executive decree signed on the first day of its presidency, January, Donald Trump It has demanded increased controls of persons entering the US to ensure that they do not have a “hostile to their citizens, their culture, their government, their institutions or their founding authorities”.
Since then, the Trump government has been in a dispute with universities, canceling thousands of visas and turning against well -known educational institutions who considers that they have opposed what it considers US foreign policy interests.