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Megyn Kelly put Vice President J.D. Vance on the hot seat during her February 4, 2026 interview, pressing him on how the administration plans to handle the inflow and influence of foreign students on American campuses. The exchange was raw and unvarnished—exactly the kind of straight talk Americans deserve when national security and the future of our universities are at stake.
Vance did not dodge the hard truth: if noncitizens with student visas pose risks to our national interest, the administration will act, including deportations where warranted. That clear-eyed stance is a welcome corrective to years of muddled, politically correct policies that put campus “feelings” ahead of American safety and sovereignty.
The facts undercut the media’s usual hand-wringing about a tidal wave of foreign scholars: the Institute of International Education’s Open Doors data show China remains a major sender of students, but numbers have actually fallen from their 2019 peak — roughly 277,000 Chinese students were in the U.S. in the 2023–24 academic year, while total international enrollment topped 1.1 million. Conservatives should use those facts to demand sensible vetting, not to kneel before woke universities that have treated foreign tuition like a cash cow.
The White House and State Department have already moved off the sidelines: Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced a May 2025 effort to “aggressively” revoke visas for Chinese students with concerning ties and to tighten vetting, and the State Department paused some visa processing to reassess security measures. Those are tough but necessary steps to protect American research, technology, and the safety of our citizens—and anyone who objects should explain why they side with foreign regimes over the homeland.
Let’s be blunt: many American colleges built bloated budgets around foreign tuition and have become propaganda mills for leftist ideology and foreign influence. International students undeniably bring dollars—the Department of Commerce estimated international education’s impact measured in the tens of billions—but money cannot be more important than national defense or the integrity of scientific research. It’s not un-American to insist that the people and knowledge we admit actually benefit the United States first.
Megyn Kelly’s grilling of Vice President Vance showed the sort of backbone our country needs right now: defend our borders, defend our campuses, and put American interests first. Patriots should applaud an administration willing to clean house at institutions that refuse to put the nation above ideology, and they should demand Congress back policies that protect intellectual property, campus safety, and the jobs of hardworking Americans.
