There are more than 1.1 million international students attending American universities—an all-time high, according to the Open Doors 2024 Report on International Educational Exchange.

The Open Doors Report—the leading annual benchmark for international educational exchange in the United States—is published by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and the Institute of International Education (IIE).

Most of the 1,126,690 international students in hundreds of American universities and colleges attend class, get their degrees, and return to their home countries without incident.

They are the “silent majority” of foreign students.

Meanwhile, a vociferous minority of foreign students, in cahoots with thousands of narcissistic and oblivious American students, continue to disrupt life on college campuses.

The result? The U.S. State Department has revoked nearly 1,700 student visas in the past few months.

However, according to the American Immigration Lawyers Association, actually more than 4,700 students have been removed from the US in the past year. The association says that information comes from a database known as the Student and Exchange Visitor Information System that is maintained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

We can quibble about the numbers, but there is no equivocating when it comes to the reasons thousands of foreign students who support and demonstrate on behalf of terrorist organizations like Hamas, Hezbollah, and various violent Palestinian Liberation organizations have been arrested and ejected from our country.

The National Association of Foreign Student Advisers estimates that as of last week, another 1,400 international students at 160 colleges, universities, and university systems have had their visas revoked or their legal status terminated and now face deportation.

“It might be more than 1,400 at this point,” Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters. “At some point, I hope we run out because we’ve gotten rid of all of them, but we’re looking every day for these lunatics who are tearing things up. We are not going to be importing activists into the United States. International students are here to study. They’re here to go to class. They’re not here to lead activist movements that are disruptive and undermine our universities. Do not occupy and trash university buildings or show support for organizations that the U.S. government has labeled as terrorists.”

However, if you force your way into a college library, as was done recently at Columbia University, refuse to leave when confronted by campus security, and happen to enjoy temporary residence in the United States on a student visa, you should expect to have your guest status revoked.

Columbia University has already suspended 65 students following the recent pro-Palestinian takeover of the campus library. It has also barred 33 alumni and others from campus who invaded the library. Nothing about any of these actions should strike anyone as remotely controversial, no matter the larger political context.

More recently, the University of Washington suspended 21 students who were involved in a pro-Palestinian protest and occupation of the campus’s Interdisciplinary Engineering Building (IEB). The incident transpired on May 5, when pro-Palestinian students occupied the IEB on campus, renaming it the Shaban al-Dalou Building, in protest against the university’s ties to Boeing as war continues in Gaza.

A group dressed in all black clothing, identified as Super UW, set dumpsters on fire and vandalized school property, causing more than $1 million in damage to the IEB. The protesters barricaded themselves inside the newly constructed building and demanded that the university cut all ties with Boeing, including returning any Boeing donations and barring the company’s employees from teaching at or otherwise influencing the school, as long as war continues in Gaza.

Protestors pulled doors off hinges and glued others shut. Machine manufacturing tools worth thousands of dollars were broken and smashed, and a Boeing mural, with fresh paint and signage, was defaced.

All of this was done in support of Hamas and radical Palestinians.

Unfortunately for those foreign student protestors, federal law is clear. Support of a terrorist organization is grounds for removal from the country.  When discussing “inadmissible aliens,” the law includes explicitly any foreigner who “endorses or espouses terrorist activity or persuades others to endorse or espouse terrorist activity or support a terrorist organization.”

The U.S. government has designated Hamas as a “foreign terrorist organization” for nearly 30 years, according to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

So why is anybody surprised that international students who support Hamas are being booted from the country?

I’m not.

When the Secretary of State warns international students that he has the authority to revoke their student visas if they engage in criminal acts such as vandalism of college property or buildings, or voice support for terrorists, is it surprising when he follows through and ousts them?

It shouldn’t be. But for some reason, foreign students who support terrorist organizations, who chant “death to Israel and death to America,” and who call for the extermination of Jews are stunned when they are evicted from our nation.

So are their fatuous American accomplices who might know better had they not been indoctrinated for years by leftist America-hating teachers and professors.

The American government is doing precisely what it should be doing with unambiguous enemies of the state: They are throwing the bums out.

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