https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administrations-stops-new-student-visa-interviews-rcna209305
The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped scheduling new interviews for international students seeking visas to study in the United States as the State Department prepares for expanded social media screening of applicants, according to an internal cable seen by NBC News.

The directive was widely circulated to all U.S. diplomatic and consular posts abroad and signed by Secretary of State Marco Rubio. Politico first reported the cable.

The move is the Trump administration’s latest strike on higher education in general and international students in particular as it cuts financial support to Harvard and arrests visa-holding students from abroad.

The State Department said it would issue further guidance to consulates and embassies in the coming days.

“Effective immediately, in preparation for an expansion of required social media screening and vetting, consular sections should not add any additional student or exchange visitor visa appointment capacity," the cable said.

The memo also warned of “potentially significant implications for consular section operations, processes, and resource allocations” in a clear indication of the delay likely for student visa applications.

“Consular sections will need to take into consideration the workload and resource requirements of each case prior to scheduling them going forward,” the cable said, adding the priority should be on “services for U.S. citizens, immigrant visas, and fraud prevention.”

It was unclear how the prospective students’ social media would be screened as part of the expanded vetting procedures. The public views and speech of international students have come under increased scrutiny during the Trump administration.

The visas of thousands of students at college campuses nationwide have been revoked in recent weeks by the Trump administration, which says it must protect U.S. citizens from immigrants who intend to commit terrorist attacks, threaten national security or espouse hateful ideology.

The future of foreign students at Harvard remains uncertain after the Trump administration banned their enrollment starting in the next school year.

“International students are not a threat.”said Fanta Aw, CEO of the Association of International Educators, adding that they comprise less than 6% of college enrollment in the United States.

"Today’s decision will have a significant impact on international student’s ability to arrive in the U.S. in time for their studies, if they aren’t already discouraged and choose to attend in another country," Aw said.

Many universities nationwide have warned international students about traveling abroad this summer, fearing many will not be allowed to return.

The crackdown could also financially affect other universities with significant numbers of foreign students.

The State Department had already instructed U.S. diplomats and consular officers to refer certain student and exchange visitor visa applicants to its fraud prevention unit for mandatory social media checks under two executive orders known as Protecting the United States from Foreign Terrorists and Other National Security and Public Safety Threats and Additional Measures to Combat Anti-Semitism.

>>1408354 (OP)
Good.

>>1408357
you're op and also a faggot

>>1408357
You do realize education is one of the US' biggest exports right?

>>1408354 (OP)
Good
>>1408357
Agreed

>Bitches that foreigners should buy more of our shit
>Bans foreigners from buying our shit
This administration is as coherent as an alcoholic at last call.

And I don't want to hear any bullshit about foreigners taking up spots that could have gone to Americans as if they don't pay top dollar and therefore subsidize spots for Americans.

And this is setting aside the fact that brain drain from other countries fucking benefits us too.

>>1408366
You just hate anything that puts Americans first, don't you?

>>1408354 (OP)
Grok is going to end up deciding who gets a student visa.

>>1408367
Retard putting America first would not be gutting a major export like this. You know how much countries pay us for international students? It's legitimately an industry on part with shit like coal and oil.

>>1408372
Have you actually read the article?

>>1408359
your eslness amuses us

>>1408360
Name another nation where I can visit on a temporary visa and then either talk shit about that nation or support terrorist groups that have killed members of that nation.
>in before supercucked places like England

>>1408373
>The Trump administration on Tuesday stopped scheduling new interviews for international students seeking visas to study in the United States as the State Department prepares for expanded social media screening of applicants, according to an internal cable seen by NBC News.

Yeah so, exactly what I said.

>>1408376
Have you read more than that one paragraph? Specifically, have you read the parts that say how it's only a short term temporary measure while the state department produces new guidance on how to vet visa applicants social media? Or did you miss all of that?

>>1408377
Oh yeah, because what amounts to additional hurdles in addition to a threat of DEPORTATION for current students, on top of an admin that is increasingly trigger happy with detaining foreigners that are here legally and potentially deporting them regardless, potentially to a fucking labor camp depending on skin color, is very attractive to people looking for education. I'm sure this won't negatively impact the industry at all.

>>1408354 (OP)
Party of free thinkers when someone says orange man bad

>>1408379
>in addition to a threat of DEPORTATION for current students
They already have visas, Captain Kneejerk.
>I'm sure this won't negatively impact the industry at all.
I agree! won't someone please think of the private education institutions the rich 1%'ers send their children to!? Or that poor chancellor of a public uni pocketing 500k+ yearly in salary who runs the school like a for profit business charging local students so much money for tuition and housing that they end up with 20 years of loans??? Please think of these people, trump!

>>1408382
>>They already have visas, Captain Kneejerk.
>higher education in general and international students in particular as it cuts financial support to Harvard and arrests visa-holding students from abroad.
So clearly you were the one who didn't read the fucking article.

>I agree! won't someone please think of the private education institutions the rich 1%'ers send their children to!?
I'd rather think of how this brings in over 44 billion to the US economy and now Trump is set to lower that number immensely.

>>1408360
At our expense, clearly.
There's no reason why we should be entertaining traitors and terrorist sympathizers on our shores.

>>1408367
>You just hate anything that puts Americans first
I am putting Americans first. Foreigners should subsidize education for Americans if we can get them to.

If given a choice between educating 20 Americans and educating 30 Americans and 20 foreigners, I'll advocate for the latter every time.

>>1408386
Foreigners also pilfer our universities of state secrets and flee back to China.

>>1408384
>At our expense, clearly.
Literally to our benefit. It brings in 44 billion to the country annually.
>https://issues.org/international-students-us-higher-education-statistics/

>>1408390
Yes, but, you need to suck at least so much conservative dick on twitter to enter the country.

>>1408377
>Or did you miss all of that
crickets

>>1408386
>Foreigners should subsidize education for Americans if we can get them to
Nobody is stopping them from doing this, you tard.
The pause is temporary until they produce additional guidance to prevent this: >>1408388
>Foreigners also pilfer our universities of state secrets and flee back to China

>>1408383
>and arrests visa-holding students from abroad.
Wow I didn't realize they made this part up like that. I read the original politico article it linked to which doesn't mention arresting anyone at all, neither did the cable they reported on which was like 1-2 sentences top

NBC made that up, lol, they reported something it didn't say.
*Unless* they are using arrest not to mean "criminally arrest" but it's literal term meaning more like "to stop" which in that case yes, it's stopping visa applicants temporarily

>>1408390
>Literally to our benefit.
You're caught in the ancap meme of thinking that numbers on a spreadsheet going up is an absolute moral good.
Terrorists are coming to our country and trying to induct students into a movement which has killed American citizens and held other students hostage on college campuses.

>>1408383
>arrests visa-holding students from abroad.
Yeah bro, I googled it a bit and that's made up as fuck. Here's the cable that politico reported on:
“Effective 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 septel, which we anticipate in the coming days,”

NBC is literally the only place I see it mentioned that this is going to result in the arresting of everyone with a student visa, lmao. The claim doesn't even make sense

>>1408393
You're a fucking idiot.

>>1408388
Even if private universities were some sort of fountain of state secrets, which they aren't, you would prevent that by shutting down students coming in from China to those universities that specifically fucking have state secrets for some fucking reason.

>>1408394
>>1408396
You know, other than the 300 student visas that have been revoked and all those students they keep arresting.

FFS you know what happens when you revoke a student visa while the person is still in the country? Go ahead, take a guess.

>>1408398
FFS, nothing in this cable mentions revoking visas, you just made that up, didn't you?

This is about new visa applicants you fucking tard.

>>1408397
>Even if private universities were some sort of fountain of state secrets, which they aren't,
I dunno if you're not an America, or you legit don't know what goes on in places like Harvard, but the schools we're talking about are at the forefront of R&D for a wide swath of industries.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/china/education-or-espionage-chinese-student-takes-his-homework-home-china-n893881
Our real concern right now, though, is making sure that terrorists can't come here at our own invitation and indoctrinate Americans to fight on their behalf.

>>1408400
>or you legit don't know what goes on in places like Harvard
Bro he lives in a tent behind Starbucks smoking fentanyl. He probably went to Portland Community College.

>>1408399
Maybe not in this cable, but they sure have fuck been trying.
>https://www.politico.com/news/2025/04/25/trump-admin-reverses-termination-foreign-student-visa-registrations-00309407

>>1408401
Where do you people get this shit from?

>>1408400
>but the schools we're talking about are at the forefront of R&D for a wide swath of industries
Which is not the same thing as state secrets, dipshit. Also, we're talking about ALL schools.

>Our real concern right now, though, is making sure that terrorists can't come here at our own invitation and indoctrinate Americans to fight on their behalf.
Many terrorists with a history of being recruited by their foreign college classmates in your estimation, dumbnuts?

>>1408406
>Many terrorists with a history of being recruited by their foreign college classmates in your estimation, dumbnuts?
One of them literally killed two Americans in front of the Israeli embassy, retard.
Don't be a faggot.

>>1408407
Oh, so can we ban MAGA from campus due that time one of them shot up a walmart?

>>1408407
>One of them literally killed two Americans in front of the Israeli embassy, retard.
And you have evidence he was recruited by one of his classmates sometime before his *checks notes* 2018 graduation to commit a terrorist attack against Israelis in response to their invasion of Gaza which started in *checks notes again* 2023?

>American college graduate commits a terrorist act!
>So we must ban all foreigners from our colleges!
Dipshit.

>>1408407
Only one of the victims was American-Israeli. Do try not to politicize terrorist acts you don't actually give a shit about.

>>1408408
>implying anyone wearing a MAGA hat on campus doesn't get ostracized, harassed, assaulted, and in some cases shot

>>1408413
Probably because they keep shooting up walmarts.

>>1408415
Now to be fair, sometimes they shoot up schools.

>>1408367
>You just hate anything that puts Americans first, don't you?
First into the woodchipper, yes. trump and the gop are fucking you, and you don't even realize it. You idiots are as bad as the brexit morons that had buyer's remorse once reality set in

If you don’t agree with the prevailing media narratives that’s wrong think

>>1408354 (OP)
Party of Free Speech, everyone.

>>1408429
media narratives > think tank narratives

>>1408412
It was a serious event because they killed people in front of an embassy on American soil, retard, not because of their ethnicity.

>>1408427
>trump and the gop are fucking you, and you don't even realize it
Oh yeah because I fucking loved the 10% bidenflation no-lube fucking I got in 2021-2024
Bidendlation is still ticking down no matter how much you tards yell and scream lies that costs are massively increasing everywhere
Mar 2024: CPI is 2.4%, down from 3.0% when Trump was sworn in

>>1408434
>Mar 2024: CPI is 2.4%, down from 3.0% when Trump was sworn in
Oh wait. Looked it up. April is even lower, 2.3%
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm

>>1408435
Bidens economy. Even Trump said so

>>1408434
>>1408435
>Looks at prices in stores
>They're up

>>1408434
you're literally not american

>>1408416
Are we talking about those troons folk?

>>1408360
I'm sorry, I never got an answer to my post. Let me try again:

Name another nation where I can visit on a temporary visa and then either talk shit about that nation or support terrorist groups that have killed members of that nation.
>in before supercucked places like England

>>1408437
Your fake anecdotal made up stories do not trump objective, quantifiable reality, turd

>>1408439
If you keep saying it, maybe it will come true, delusional anon or maybe you just need to ask your handlers for a new canned response

>>1408449
nah, i think i'll keep saying it since it seems to trigger you, not to mention it is the plain and simple truth

>>1408446
>in before supercucked places like England
You've ruled out all available answers anon.

>i think i'll keep saying it since it seems to trigger you
We are triggered, so hard.
Please keep isolating yourself on this dead board to keep triggering us

>>1408448
Please produce some examples of lowered prices.

>>1408484
https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm
CPI has reduced from 3.0% to 2.3% since trump took over, down from bidens high of 10%.

If you are unsure what CPI is or what it measures, I invite you to educate yourself

>>1408484
he can't, but he will try to take credit for biden's economy

>>1408485
>down from bidens high of 10%.
There was a pandemic you moron

>>1408486
Its the Republicunt way
Bragging about Bidens transportation bill despite voting against it is still making the rounds

>>1408485
Yes yes, bragging about things not being as bad as they were during a pandemic is very nice and all, but what prices has Trump lowered in his first 100 days that he wasn't responsible for raising in the first place?

>>1408485
>https://www.bls.gov/charts/consumer-price-index/consumer-price-index-by-category-line-chart.htm
>12-month percentage change
>Annual CPI = (value of basket in current year / value of basket in prior year) x 100
>Or: CPI = value of basket May 2024 to May 2025 / value of basket May 2023 to May 2024) x 100
Hence, your '2.3%' is majority-derived from a period of time in which Biden was President. Also, Israel is a genocidal apartheid state run by war criminals. I invite you to educate yourself.

>>1408496
careful, if you school them too hard they'll either start crying or shriek about how CPI is a measurement of inflation, not pricing

>>1408496
Right.
It's point in time A, divided by point in time B times 100

As this number continues to drop every month, it's only proving that trumps trade strategies have not increased the cost of goods.

I don't know what is so hard for you to understand about this. It's like you want everyone to just take your anecdotal story at face value that "my prices for everything are a bajillion times higher since trump took over, I swear!

>>1408513
>right
no anon, he's saying you're wrong. study english before you post more

>>1408514
Oh for fucks sake, you don't know English *or* math? You can't even understand an explanation of a simple equivalence he gave: >>1408496

>>1408516
and stop pretending to be multiple people, faggot. you're not intelligent enough to fool anyone

>>1408517
What the fuck are you talking about about retard? Im genuinely curious, you're acting like you're off your meds right now.

>Desperate libcuck playbook:
>Call everyone ESL
>If that doesn't work, say everyone is not American
>If that doesn't work, call everyone a samefag
>If that doesn't work, repeat from step 1

the esl shill is upset at me for pointing out the obvious again

>>1408522
>repeat from step 1
Kek, called it you predictable retard lmao

the esl shill thinks he's winning, how cute

>>1408513
>https://www.bls.gov/opub/hom/cpi/calculation.htm
>CPI annual average indexes use 12 successive months of CPI values

>>1408525
>CPI annual average
Nobody has linked to that chart have they?
You literally just picked out the description of one chart out of probably 50 described on that page, and the description you picked out was not a chart referenced anywhere in this thread

>>1408525
>>1408496
Here, I found it for you. CPI annual average: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/about-us/monetary-policy/inflation-calculator/consumer-price-index-1913-

What you are describing is indeed different than what was linked, the 12-month percentage change of CPI: 12-month percentage change

Educate yourself

>>1408525
>>1408496
Here's an additional chart of cpi annual averages, this one regional
https://www.bls.gov/regions/mid-atlantic/data/consumerpriceindexannualandsemiannual_table.htm
Once again, you picked a random definition for something that was never mentioned in this thread until you brought it up.

>>1408433
>It was a serious event because they killed people in front of an embassy on American soil, retard, not because of their ethnicity.
They weren't killed in front of an embassy. They were killed in front of a museum. So I guess it wasn't a serious event.

Are you done embarrassing yourself?

>>1408534
I honestly don't care about who was killed or where it happened, I just want leftists out of the country.

>>1408541
which country are you in?

>>1408544
I live on the northern tip of your mother's clit.

the shill is indirectly implying i have genetically large genitals?

Your mother is a fat whore

she's insane and kind of an asshole, but she's not fat. and her clit is probably gynormous just like my boyclit

The terrorist groups that the media tells us about in the news are usually behind the U.S. intelligence agencies.

>>1408354 (OP)
BAN ALL "STUDENTS" FROM INDIA

99.9999% of Indian scammers caught stealing from elderly widows were in the USA as "students." They're scammers 100% and nothing more, stop letting them steal from our society.