Ashley Moody proposes bill to prohibit Chinese student visas
Florida Senator Ashley Moody has proposed legislation aimed at banning student visas for Chinese nationals, citing concerns over espionage. The bill, titled the Stop chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act of 2025, has received backing from several Republican representatives. Moody argues that China requires individuals on student visas to gather intelligence for the Chinese Communist Party (CCP),questioning the logic behind granting these visas when there are important security risks involved. She emphasized that obtaining a student visa is not a right and referenced past actions by her predecessor, marco Rubio, regarding visa restrictions for individuals whose views oppose U.S. foreign policy. Data presented by another Republican senator indicated a substantial increase in the number of Chinese nationals residing in the U.S. and highlighted similar concerns about immigration patterns in Florida.
Ashley Moody proposes bill to prohibit Chinese student visas: ‘Spying is happening’
Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) claimed her motivation behind proposing legislation to stop issuing student visas to Chinese immigrants was a concern regarding espionage.
Weeks into Moody’s first term in the Senate, she introduced the Stop Chinese Communist Prying by Vindicating Intellectual Safeguards in Academia Act of 2025. In the House, she already has the support of Reps. Riley Moore (R-WV), Burgess Owens (R-UT), Troy Nehls (R-TX), and Brandon Gill (R-TX), among others.
“We’re giving 300,000 [visas] a year to come into our universities and to come into this country,” Moody said on Fox News’s Sunday Night in America. “They are required by law, under penalty — some of their families have even been hauled in by the CCP — to gather intelligence and cooperate with the CCP. So why we are offering visas, why these are still being handed out is insane at this time.”
Moody echoed her predecessor, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, when she assured that “getting a student visa is not a right.”
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Rubio has gone as far as to defend the decisions to detain certain visa holders accused of attending protests featuring terrorist propaganda. The secretary reminded them that they are “visitors” and “don’t have a right to be in the United States.” Rubio confirmed that visas would not be granted to people who are forthcoming about their views that are counter to U.S. foreign policy interests.
Sen. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) cited data showing 250,000 Chinese nationals living in the U.S. Moody previously noted that Florida alone has experienced an 8,000% increase in Chinese immigrants crossing into the state.
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