The State Department's authority to control student visas
While activist district judges file an unending list of national injunctions against President Trump's policies, the Secretary of State is quietly exercising his authority to limit who is eligible for the PRIVELEGE of a student visa. The Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced yesterday that visas for Chinese students "with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields." will be revoked. The Trump administration will also "revise visa criteria to enhance scrutiny of all future visa applications" from China and Hong Kong, Rubio said.
Many have pointed to the fact that China exploited our visa system for decades to advance the priorities of the Communist Party. Our universities don't care because the foreign students pay full tuition costs, and the ideology of Communist China doesn't seem to bother many university administrators. How much of America's intellectual properties have been stollen by certain Chinese students acting as spies is anyone's guess.
The State Department vetting students applying for student visas is long overdue and the Secretary of State is to be commended for it in the opinion of this reporter.
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Good morning from Boston and welcome to the news.
Boston's mayoral election is between the current racist mayor Michelle Wu and the son of Patriots owner Robert Kraft, Josh Kraft. It seems that Ms Wu is afraid to debate Josh Kraft. She prefers to use the old Biden playbook of hiding in the basement.
So the UN denounced Israel for distributing aid in Gaza, but not Hamas militants for tryng io obstruct the distribution. Doesn't anyone else see that there is something wrong about that?
I have a question. I know that Canada, and China, and most nations of the world would really prefer to see mutual benefit, Win-Win among all nations of the world. Why is it that Americans demand that it be Win-Lose? Is it because of a sports-minded philosopy, that there always has to be a winner and a loser, and America MUST ALWAYS be the winner and fuck the loser?
I think if people were interviewed on it, most might associate the UN with Hamas. I think sometimes we underestimate the intelligence of people.
Is it because of a sports-minded philosopy, that there always has to be a winner and a loser, and America MUST ALWAYS be the winner and fuck the loser?
America hasn't "won" in a long time. I think the rest of the world will do just fine if the US is strong & solvent.
CNN’s Jake Tapper defended some of President Donald Trump’s grievances against his political opponents and aspects of the justice system.
"I think it is problematic when people run for prosecutor and promise to go after a specific politician ... And I think that there was a degree to which that was tolerated by the media writ large."
Jake Tapper Says Trump ‘Does Have Some Legitimate Grievances’
Yea, but Tapper is on CNN which is all fake news according to the right wing.
As my favorite President calls him "Fake Jake" Tapper.
Do you still watch CNN?
Occassioanly
Do you watch the Fox Variety Entertainment Network?
I think some people still call it Fox News
I watch Special Report whenever I can.
You see Bob, first there was Edward R Murrow, then came the second tier of Journalists such as Walter Cronkite and Huntley/Brinley. Finally, we have the true successor to Murrow in Bret Baier. The rest are all either analysts or activists.
I cannot decide if this part of your comment was satire or comedy. Whichever it was thanks for the chuckle
Stephen Miller: "A local judge in Boston ordered the flight grounded and has now trapped ICE officers in Djibouti, with these savage monsters having to guard to protect them 24/7 in a location with no appropriate facilities, no detention space, no detention beds, nothing?!"
"A local judge in Boston ordered the flight grounded and has now trapped ICE officers in Djibouti, with these savage monsters having to guard" | Canada Free Press
What's in a name eh? Canada Free Press makes the far right look like an exact copy of the far left. I'm not surprised that Miller would quote them ... nor you of late for that matter.
Haven't you heard? New rule: we don't knock sources.
I didn't touch your comment. See how nice I am.
Nope!
Movin' on to the airport in Djibouti ... If the airport is such a horror show:
1: Why are the largest users of it the American military?
2: Why are people being shipped there ... Lady MacBeth has run out of soap?
The complaint was about proper facilities.
Does the airport have a jail?
How about a cage at a zoo nearby?
You honestly think that every airport the US military flies into are some kind luxury resorts or something? That's fkng hilarious. I've gotten off C-130's at "airports" that barely had control towers let alone a passenger terminal.
There are two within spitting distance ... Gabod and Nagad, both of which are famous for torture.
Thank God! I'll give Stephen a call.
I have his number for you, it's 1-800-ima-nazi
He must be getting results.
That is what many forget. The visa, be it student visa or travel visa or work visa, is a privilege. It is not "right".
It is what the activist judges can't get around!
... and so many of them are republican appointees ... go figure!
Please give us a breakdown of all the national injunctions against Trump policies.
How many were democrat appointed and how many were Republican appointees.
We are counting on your expertise.
That would take a day or two ... moving on to the latest 3-0 ruling:
Judge Gary Stephen Katzmann ... appointed by Obama
Judge Timothy M. Reif ... appointed by Trump
Judge Jane Ann Restani ... appointed by Reagan
My guess when this gets appealed to SCOTUS is a 7-2 loss for Mr. Teflon.
I can wait.
moving on to the latest 3-0 ruling:
Judge Gary Stephen Katzmann ... appointed by Obama
Judge Timothy M. Reif ... appointed by Trump
Judge Jane Ann Restani ... appointed by Reagan
Yes, I heard that last night from Bret Baier.
That I'll accept.
Dan Bongino is being assigned to the reopening of investigations into the White House cocaine case, the J6 pipe bomber, and the Dobbs leak.
The 20th Deputy Director of the FBI.
Damn the left is going to cry over those investigations.
I can't wait for FBI agents to show up at the Supreme Court. As far as the cocaine case, I can imagine a few subpoenas going out.
I wonder how many will claim they were "pardoned" by Biden.
Believe it or not a House Committee is now taking up the pardons and the autopen signatures.
"Five former aides to President Joe Biden are facing the threat of subpoena ahead of a Thursday evening deadline to comply with a widening autopen investigation launched by House Republicans .
House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-KY) is leading the investigation into whether Biden personally approved controversial last-minute executive actions, especially a series of preemptive pardons, using a mechanical signature device known as an autopen."
Ex-Biden aides face Thursday deadline to comply with autopen probe - Washington Examiner
Its going to be a lot of fun once the Democrats retake the House. Trump wont have a free minute.
Have you ever heard the old phrase: "Don't count your chickens before they hatch?"
Believe it or not democrats aren't trusted.
Trump had the chance to come back in office and act with measure, with competence , and with legality. But nooooooooooo. Now when the Dems retake the House he will be in for a parade of justifiable investigations. Must see tv.
More forged "pardons" and fictional "get Trump" nonsense? Nothing new. We've witnessed it since it started in 2016.
That's some funny stuff right there.
The use of the autopen by anybody not approved has legal consequences. Not only for the user but it could reverse EVERYTHING it was improperly used for.
There is no chance in hell of having that happen. They're going to lose seats. Dems are losing just about every demographic, especially young Black and Hispanic men. Some on the left can't believe that the national sentiment has turned against the progressives.
Let's see if anyone has the guts.
Unlike the ones that Comey was part of?
You mean like the Russia Collusion hoax? Or the J6 "investigation"?
If universities take American tax dollars, they should be focused on serving Americans.
Agree to the absolute logic of that. Harvard can teach whatever it wants, but it is not entitled to taxpayer money.
As they walked along a beach his wife said gee, what's that and James Comey said it looks like something political , just before his BS book was about to come out. BTW the book is about violence coming from the right, not as it typically does from the left.
With the release of that book, should also come perjury charges.
Just like Nellie Ohr is facing perjury charges.
Oh, they are finding out a lot.
Here is the latest:
WASHINGTON — The wife of a former Justice Department official gave “demonstrably false” testimony to Congress about her involvement in drafting and disseminating since-debunked dossiers about Donald Trump’s purported collusion with Russia in 2016, according to a bombshell trove of internal FBI records released Wednesday by Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).
Nellie Ohr worked for research firm Fusion GPS when it was hired in the lead-up to the 2016 election to dig up dirt on the Trump campaign’s alleged links to Russian organized crime — but later told a House panel she did not know about the DOJ’s parallel investigation into the matter.
Evidence assembled by the FBI indicates that Ohr helped compile two dossiers — including the notorious file pushed by former MI6 agent Christopher Steele — that helped launch the bureau’s Crossfire Hurricane investigation.
Nellie Ohr perjured herself in Trump-Russia probe testimony, bombshell FBI records show
We already knew the Fusion GPS / Crossfire Hurricane / Steele dossier were fake. Now those responsible are FINALLY being held accountable.
And it's funny because, unlike the Democrats, nothing had to be made up.
When you say "we," you must mean the reasonably well informed. There are still those who believe the hoax.
I do. It's unfathomable that there are still some who buy into the hoax.
And more on the subject of the Russia Collusion hoax:
The Pulitzer board are NOW worried about the hoax being a diversion and interfere with Trumps obligations while in office? Fkng laughable.
They want to believe it.
A critical thinker I know called it "confirmation bias."
The Pulitzer board has zero credibility.
Why? Because they didn't nominate your leper messiah?
Because they nominated a guy simply for being black.
Signed,
Ronald Reagan.
Nobody ran Reagan.
The delusions of this "news column" are reaching new stratospheres.
Everybody has the option to scroll on past it. But it seems the ability is unattainable.
Show us what is incorrect from the news section.
It would take too long.
But more relevantly every time someone shows where you are wrong you dont reply with directness but deflect off into something else. Everyone here is aware of that.
LMAO! Ya, I'll bet it would.
But more relevantly every time someone shows where you are wrong you dont reply with directness but deflect off into something else. Everyone here is aware of that.
As Rocky Marciano once said "If I said I could easily beat him, I'd be bragging and if I said I couldn't I'd be lying."
Be sure to let us know when you think you beat me.
You've never proved anyone wrong. Everyone here is aware of that.
McCarthyism anyone ?
I knew McCarthy had no list. That's why I took him on.
When it rains it pours as Fani Willis might say:
ATLANTA (AP) — A judge has ordered Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis to pay more than $54,000 in attorneys’ fees and to turn over documents after finding that her office violated Georgia’s Open Records Act.
Judge says Fani Willis violated open records law, orders her to pay $54K in attorneys' fees | AP News
Fake news lawfare.
I should be back in a few.
I think I'll take a walk-through London and reminisce on when I covered "the blitz."
FINAL THOUGHTS
The premise of this one went virtually untouched. Thus, even on a social media site with a large majority of far-left individuals (unlike the US population) the idea that the State Department gets to vet and ultimately approve of who can obtain a student visa went totally unchallenged. I'm glad that everyone seems to agree on the State Department having the undisputed authority over student visas.
"Good night and good luck."