According to the State Department, reasons for the revocations range from overstaying the visas to multiple run-ins with law enforcement. The "vast majority" of those legal violations were for cases of assault, driving under the influence, burglary, and "support for terrorism."
Approximately 4,000 of the 6,000 visas were reportedly revoked because the visa holders "broke the law." 200-300 were yanked under part of the Immigration and Nationality Act for engaging in behavior such as raising funds for Hamas.
"Every single student visa revoked under the Trump administration has happened because the individual has either broken the law or expressed support for terrorism while in the United States," a senior State Department official said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
Rep. Burgess Owens (R-UT) is vice chair of the Education and Workforce Committee, which oversees education and workforce programs that affect all Americans. He does not think visas are that complicated.
"It's an honor, it's a privilege to come to this country, to take advantage of this remarkable society and culture we have," he recently told Washington Watch. "If you blow it, go back home. If you don't appreciate it, go back home."
He likened visa holders to invited guests.
"If they decide they want to start demonstrating outside of our household that they do not own, then we're going to make sure they don't come back into our household," Owens posed. "It's really common sense."
The system, he said, is one that should be appreciated, and kids need to stop being trained to think they are entitled.
"They come for a period of time, they come here legally, and they come here appreciating the great opportunity they have to live in this country," said Owens. "When they leave here, they leave here talking with great praise about the American people and the system that allowed them to move forward."
"Those who don't want to come here and praise and be excited about it, go someplace else," he continued. "Go back home."
Democrats claim the Trump administration's effort to revoke visas is a violation of due process, but as Secretary of State Marco Rubio has pointed, "this has happened for years" – even under the Biden administration.
