{"id":2603253,"date":"2026-05-15T15:27:01","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-nothing-maga-about-500000-student-visas-for-the-ccp\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T15:27:57","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:27:57","slug":"theres-nothing-maga-about-500000-student-visas-for-the-ccp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/theres-nothing-maga-about-500000-student-visas-for-the-ccp\/","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s Nothing MAGA About 500,000 Student Visas For The CCP"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftheres-nothing-maga-about-500000-student-visas-for-the-ccp%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2603253&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article argues that Donald Trump\u2019s position on allowing large numbers of Chinese nationals to receive U.S.student visas is misguided and harmful to the interests of Americans. It recalls Trump previously praising America\u2019s potential and people, then criticizes his claim that issuing visas for about 500,000 Chinese students would avoid \u201cinsulting\u201d China. The author contends that giving foreign students that scale of access could displace Americans and undermine an \u201cAmerica first\u201d priority of educating Americans, especially at stronger universities.<\/p>\n<p>The piece also asserts that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/few-trust-the-doj-which-is-why-court-should-reject-its-request-to-freeze-special-master\/\" title=\"Few Trust The DOJ, Which Is Why Court Should Reject Its Request To Freeze Special Master\">national-security risks<\/a> are significant, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >citing enforcement actions involving<\/a> a Chinese student convicted of photographing military installations in Virginia. It acknowledges not every Chinese student is a threat but argues that China\u2019s legal and political surroundings justifies concern.<\/p>\n<p>Next,the article challenges Trump\u2019s suggestion that many foreign students come to learn American culture and may want to stay. It claims research indicates Chinese students often come primarily for better education and career prospects, with many planning to return to China for jobs. It also points to findings about \u201cprotective segregation,\u201d where students tend to socialize mainly with their own group rather than integrating culturally. Additional data from Chinese sources is used to suggest most students go abroad to study and then return, implying the benefit flows back to China more than to U.S. cultural goals.<\/p>\n<p>the author concludes that the president\u2019s remarks normalize the idea that foreign students should be allowed to leverage American universities at Americans\u2019 expense-even though the author believes U.S. institutions should be reserved for Americans.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When President Donald Trump descended the escalator in June of 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/3923128\/donald-trump-announcement-speech\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">he reminded<\/a> Americans of something many of their leaders had forgotten: \u201cOur country has tremendous potential. We have tremendous people.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And he was right \u2014 Americans are tremendous people with tremendous potential, which is why it\u2019s so disheartening that the same man now says he wants to give 500,000 Chinese nationals student visas.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/disclosetv\/status\/2055106213004677253?s=46\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">told<\/a> Fox News\u2019 Sean Hannity on Thursday that he doesn\u2019t want to \u201cinsult\u201d China by denying student visas to some half a million Chinese nationals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2018I don\u2019t want any students\u2019 is a very insulting thing to say to a country,\u201d Trump told Hannity \u2014 as if not insulting China should ever be a top priority or a consideration on which to base policy decisions. \u201cIf you don\u2019t have those students, good students by the way \u2026 if you want to see a university system die, take a half a million people out of it. \u2026 The ones that won\u2019t be hurt are the top schools; the top schools will do fine. But your lower schools \u2026 the ones that don\u2019t do quite as well, those schools, they\u2019ll be dying all over the place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The remarks are similar to comments he made last year, claiming it is \u201cvery important\u201d to allow 600,000 Chinese students to attend American colleges, otherwise lower-tiered colleges would struggle to stay in business.<\/p>\n<p>But as The Federalist\u2019s Shawn Fleetwood wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/08\/27\/trumps-chinese-student-visa-policy-is-an-un-american-security-risk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">these pages<\/a> last year, \u201cThe correct number of Chinese nationals who should be allowed to study at American universities is zero.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Part of the \u201cAmerica First\u201d movement that Trump revived \u2014 and in many ways expanded \u2014 is that Americans should be prioritized in every instance, including education. Displacing hundreds of thousands of Americans so that foreign nationals from a hostile regime can take their places is the opposite of America First. Americans should not be forced to compete with the globe for a spot at one of their own institutions, especially not with citizens of a country that routinely spies on us, steals our intellectual property, and tried to kill us all with a virus in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Further, the <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/06\/13\/trump-is-wrong-america-shouldnt-be-admitting-chinese-nationals-to-its-universities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">national security risks<\/a> of importing hundreds of thousands of Chinese nationals for \u201ceducation\u201d are numerous. Last May a Chinese national who was admitted to the University of Minnesota as a graduate student was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ice.gov\/news\/releases\/ice-removes-chinese-national-convicted-photographing-military-installations\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">deported<\/a> after he was convicted for taking pictures of \u201cmilitary installations\u201d in Virginia with a drone. As Fleetwood pointed out, it\u2019s not that <em>all<\/em> Chinese students studying in America are CCP operatives, but \u201cgiven China\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-chinese-student-visa-policy-is-an-un-american-risk\/\" title=\"Trump&#039;s ... Visa Policy Is An Un-American Risk\">existing national security laws<\/a>, however, Americans are right to be concerned.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also should not forget that a number of our institutions still offer high-quality teaching that should not be wasted on educating and refining the next generation of Chinese people. American institutions should be for Americans.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s rather bizarre that the America First president appears willing to accept Chinese nationals displacing Americans so long as it helps prop up struggling colleges further down the totem pole.  If the American university system cannot survive without importing foreigners, then that institution deserves to go under. Further, it\u2019s self-defeating for a nation supposedly trying to compete with China to allow its own nationals to displace Americans at our top institutions.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s not all the president said in his interview with Hannity. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI frankly think that it\u2019s good that people come from other countries and they learn our culture and many of them want to stay here. I think it\u2019s good,\u201d the president said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNot everybody agrees with me,\u201d he continued, and on that issue, many in the America First movement do not.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with Trump\u2019s claim is that it sounds like it came straight from Mike Pence or any other RINO, grounded in a pre-2016 understanding of immigration and assimilation, that is, the old assumption that mass immigration is good for America because newcomers adopt our culture.<\/p>\n<p>But the data doesn\u2019t show that. Instead, a <a href=\"https:\/\/files.eric.ed.gov\/fulltext\/EJ1129138.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2017 study<\/a> of 128 Chinese students at two U.S. universities found that the top reasons Chinese students came to the U.S. were that the education was better here and they wanted a \u201cnew perspective\u201d on their native country. While non-academic factors played a role for some, the biggest drive was academic and pragmatic, with many reporting plans to \u201creturn to China for jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Another <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaup.org\/academe\/issues\/spring-2021\/understanding-chinese-students-us-campuses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">study<\/a> found Chinese students engage in \u201cprotective segregation,\u201d which consists of intentionally \u201changing out among themselves.\u201d Part of this is due to the obvious linguistic and cultural barriers, but self-segregation is also a sign that students do not want to \u201clearn our culture\u201d but rather stay immersed in their own through social cliques. (I am a first-hand witness to this \u201cprotective segregation,\u201d having seen it myself during my years at Fordham University.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.www.gov.cn\/archive\/statistics\/202512\/11\/content_WS693aaa4fc6d00ca5f9a080a6.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Data<\/a> from the CCP itself (which may be instructive, though it should not be taken at face value) states the communist country has seen an \u201caccelerating flow of talent back to the country.\u201d The Chinese Ministry of Education states \u201cthat from 1978, when China launched its reform and opening up policy, to 2024, a total of 8.88 million Chinese went abroad to study. Among the 7.43 million students who completed their studies, 6.44 million chose to return to China.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other words, Chinese students are not coming here to \u201clearn our culture.\u201d They are coming to milk our education system and then bring their newfound education back to China to make China great.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s one thing for the Chinese to do that \u2014 it\u2019s another for the president of the United States to seemingly pronounce it acceptable.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Brianna Lyman is an elections correspondent at The Federalist. Brianna graduated from Fordham University with a degree in International Political Economy. Her work has been featured on Newsmax, Fox News, Fox Business and RealClearPolitics. Follow Brianna on X: @briannalyman2<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Trump rode down the escalator in 2015, he praised America\u2019s potential-something many leaders forgot<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2603254,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-1.18.14-PM-scaled-e1778865631190-1024x577.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51019,4501,36382,5656,56127],"class_list":["post-2603253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ccp-2","tag-china","tag-immigration-policy","tag-maga","tag-student-visas"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/Screenshot-2026-05-15-at-1.18.14-PM-scaled-e1778865631190-1024x577.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2603253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2603257,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603253\/revisions\/2603257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2603254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}