Welcome to America, Terrorists! Right This Way for Student Visas!

by Majid Rafizadeh  •  January 31, 2018 at 4:00 am

• "Foreign students have one of the highest rates of overstaying visas of any category -- much higher even than tourist visas. It's one of the favorite visas for terrorists to try to obtain, because it offers a longer duration of stay." — Jessica M. Vaughan, the director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies.
• According to the Department of Homeland Security, there were approximately 739,000 immigrants who overstayed their visas last year alone. Roughly 80,000 of those were foreign students.
• Worse, jihadists do not even need to obtain a university admission to set foot in the US. They can get a student visa by obtaining an admission from a school to learn English. Many of these Islamists can alter their area of study once they set foot in the US. An agent of the Iranian regime, for instance, may get a visa to study English in the US, but once he arrives, he can switch that major to study nuclear physics, to help his regime obtain nuclear weapons.

(Image source: US State Department)

Recently, in the middle of a speech at a conference in Europe about the threats of radical jihadist groups, a young imam stood up and vehemently voiced his objection to my remarks. At the end of the conference, the imam and several of his followers came forward. The imam insisted that Americans should be educated about Sharia law.

One of the imam's followers spoke up, his voice filled with excitement as he described how they had just entered Europe and their next destination was the US. When asked what their experience was like traveling to Europe, the man responded with a tone of gloating in his voice.

"It was very easy," he said. "We came here on a student visa, and we will be in the US on another student visa!"

What the man claimed was tragically true. Many Islamists have become adept at manipulating the flaws in the immigration system and have found ways of taking advantage of any legal loopholes.

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