JD Vance: “US Will Deport Foreign Students If Their Stay Doesn’t Serve Our Best Interest”

US Vice-President JD Vance has stated that immigrants on student visas will be deported if the United States determines their stay is not in the country’s best interest.

Vance made these remarks during an interview with Fox News aired on Thursday night, March 13.

The vice-president said he expects deportation numbers to increase as the Trump administration intensifies efforts to remove illegal migrants from the country.

He added that President Donald Trump has been dissatisfied with the pace of the deportation process so far, promising that the numbers would rise significantly.

When asked if this policy would affect foreign students who entered the country legally, Vance confirmed it would, describing the measure as a way to enhance national security.

“This is not fundamentally about free speech, and to me, yes, it’s about national security, but it’s also more importantly about who do we as an American public decide gets to join our national community,” he said.

“And if the secretary of state and the president decide this person shouldn’t be in America, and they have no legal right to stay here, it’s as simple as that.

“I think we’ll certainly see some people who get deported on student visas if we determine that it’s not in the best interest of the United States to have them in our country.

“I don’t know how high that number is going to be, but you’re going to see more people.”

Vance also criticized foreign students for taking up spots in high-ranking universities, arguing that this comes at the expense of native Americans.

“A lot of these foreign students, most of them, pay full freight. So sometimes you have you at elite universities like Columbia or Harvard, you have a well-qualified middle class American kid from the heartland who doesn’t get a spot in these universities because some Chinese oligarch, who is paying $100,000 a year, takes up that spot,” he said.

“So it’s not just bad for national security, it’s bad for the American dream for a lot of kids who want to go to a nice university and can’t because their spot was taken by a foreign student. It’s certainly something we are looking at.”