{"id":29161,"date":"2025-05-27T21:52:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=29161"},"modified":"2025-05-27T21:52:08","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T21:52:08","slug":"us-vows-to-use-every-tool-in-crackdown-on-international-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/?p=29161","title":{"rendered":"US vows to use \u2018every tool\u2019 in crackdown on international students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> \n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__content-sign-up-topic-description o3-type-body-base\">Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington, business and the world<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"article__content-sign-up-iframe close\" scrolling=\"no\" id=\"signUpIframe\" data-prev-url=\"\/register\/in-article-sign-up?ft-content-uuid=fb8a97db-991e-4d47-93f5-a663884f12a9&amp;newsletter-id=65b8fec772badb00166eafc6\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US government says it will use \u201cevery tool\u201d to evaluate visa applicants, amid reports that the Trump administration will restrict applications from foreigners seeking to study in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Secretary of state Marco Rubio sent a diplomatic cable on Tuesday ordering US embassies to halt scheduling interviews for new student visa applicants, according to Politico, as the administration tightens screening of applicants\u2019 social media activities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEffective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor (F, M and J) visa appointment capacity until further guidance is issued,\u201d the cable reportedly said.<\/p>\n<p>State Department spokesperson Tammy Bruce declined to comment on Tuesday directly on the cable report but defended the administration\u2019s approach to reviewing visa applications. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe use every tool in our tool chest to vet anyone coming in,\u201d Bruce said. \u201cThat is nothing new, and we will continue to use every tool that we can to assess who it is that is coming here, whether they are students or otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The White House declined to comment.<\/p>\n<p>The reports come as President Donald Trump escalates his attacks on some of America\u2019s most prestigious universities, including over their treatment of foreign students. He has already cancelled billions of dollars in federal funding for institutions including Harvard and Columbia. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/donald-trump\" data-trackable=\"link\">Trump<\/a> has accused elite universities of allowing hate speech and failing to tackle antisemitism in recent years, while the president\u2019s critics have accused him of launching an assault on free speech and academic freedom.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, secretary of homeland security Kristi Noem told Harvard she had revoked its programme for certifying international students \u201ceffective immediately\u201d. The move would in effect ban Harvard from enrolling thousands of foreign students in the autumn. The Ivy League university secured a court order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/bdf1ad72-8040-4cc3-9adc-6ee2ab09ee86\" data-trackable=\"link\">temporarily blocking the plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>US immigration authorities have also made several high-profile arrests across college campuses in recent months, including the detention of Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate who was taken into custody for his involvement in pro-Palestine campus protests last year.<\/p>\n<p>Bruce said on Tuesday that the state department would not discuss specific cases or \u201cmethods\u201d for vetting visa applicants, but said it was a \u201cgoal\u201d of Trump and Rubio \u201cto make sure that people who are here\u2009.\u2009.\u2009.\u2009understand what the law is, that they don\u2019t have any criminal intent\u201d.<\/p>\n<aside aria-labelledby=\"aside-label\" class=\"n-content-recommended--single-story n-content-recommended--inset\" data-component=\"recommended\">\n<p class=\"n-content-recommended__title o3-type-body-highlight\">Recommended<\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser o-teaser--article o-teaser--small o-teaser--stacked o-teaser--has-image js-teaser\" data-id=\"57bf40d8-dc33-41a2-a22c-5fa3b7eb4034\">\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-container js-teaser-image-container\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/57bf40d8-dc33-41a2-a22c-5fa3b7eb4034\" data-trackable=\"image-link\" data-trackable-context-story-link=\"image-link\" tabindex=\"-1\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"o-teaser__image-placeholder\" style=\"aspect-ratio:2063\/1161\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Universities have warned that the administration\u2019s policies could deter overseas students from wanting to study in the US. About 1.1mn international students are enrolled in American universities, according to the non-profit Institute of International Education.<\/p>\n<p>Studyportals, a provider of higher education data, said there was a 50 per cent drop in international students researching US options from January to April, as potential applicants increasingly explored alternatives in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n<p>Studyportals projected that if the current pattern continued, demand for US places could drop 70 per cent year on year in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery student who decides against America isn\u2019t just lost tuition money \u2014 it\u2019s lost talent,\u201d said Edwin van Rest, co-founder of Studyportals. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/fb8a97db-991e-4d47-93f5-a663884f12a9\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}