JD Vance exposed the truth about Trump’s war on foreign students (hint: it’s not about antisemitism)

“The struggle for the freedom of Palestine and the fight against anti -Semitism is walking side by side because injustice anywhere represents a threat to justice everywhere.” Colombia student Mohsen Mahdawi was clear in Concluding anti -Semitism during an interview “60 minutes” for 2023. “To be anti -Semitism is unfair,” the student’s activist clearly stated, which condemns anyone who uses anti -Semitic discourse when protesting the Israeli war on Gaza.

On Monday, the Donald Trump administration arrested Mahdawi after he had caused him in a sadistic manner to a migration office by clarifying the citizenship request. The excuse made by Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Does Al -Mahdawi need? To be deported to stop the spread of anti -Semitism. But the Rubio team did not provide any evidence that Mahdi is anti -Semitic, and he did not bother to recognize the general call in anti -Semitism.

Similar accusations were brought in Mahmoud Khalil, who is holding the Colombia Card, and a green card bearer who was arrested for participating in the Gaza protests, and Romisis Ozturk. There was no evidence that was produced from anti -Semitism from either of them, but. on the contrary, Washington Post stated that internal The written Ministry of Foreign Affairs did not find any evidence to support the accusation. Mickey Baratand The friend of the Israeli MahdawiI told “objection” that while “they do not agree on everything,” Mahdi “denounced violence” and seeks “coexistence.”

The anti -Semitism is a real problem, and as Mahdi was clearly mentioned in his condemnation, some of the demonstrators in Gaza unfortunately participated in it. But it is not detailed to claim that Trump has any sincere objection to this, especially since he and his allies routinely Use the anti -Semitic “great replacement” conspiracy theory To stir white national enthusiasm. Instead, it works as an empty excuse for the war warfare on foreign students. In this process, the Trump administration is ridiculed by both the law and real concerns about anti -Semitism, and is harmful to the issue with poor fascists.

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Under Rubio, he was there More than a thousand students have been canceled throughout the countryTherefore, it tells us that even in the three most prominent cases, the government cannot provide real evidence of anti -Semitism. Rubio, like most in the Trump administration, It uses the excess language and the charge of its victimsHe described them as “crazy”. But when journalists look at actual students, many of whom are held in detention centers, it becomes clear that this is not the case at all.

On Friday, the New York Times reported on Kseniia Petrova, A 30 -year -old student who fled Russia After protesting the invasion of her country to Ukraine. She was detained for more than two months at the Louisiana detention center with 90 other women. A violation of her alleged? Forget about announcing a bag of frog embryos to customs agents at the airport, and work materials for research at Harvard University.

“The suppression of the migration of President Trump benefited from Kseniia Petrova, the world who fled Russia after protesting its conquest of Ukraine.”

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The White House of Trump rejects, which is not surprising, talking about the real reasons behind most of the visa evocation, but one can bet if they have a realistic state of a person who said or did something hostile, they will explode that story from every corner. They made a scene from Khalil, Ozturk, and Mahdawi because they know that the three read as “Muslims” – although Al -Mahdawi is Buddhi – and this is all the “evidence” that the Maga base needs. But some journalists dug some other stories. One student of driving is deported. Others had speed tickets.

Last month, Vice President JD Vance left what It is likely to be the real cause of this campaign When he claimed that foreign students are “bad for the American dream”. He said that international students are bad “for American children who want to go to Latifa University, but they cannot do so because their place has been taken by a foreign student.” Katha Shao, a Cleveland immigration lawyer, told NBC News This is Trump that targets “young and weak-people who do not have many resources to defend themselves”, as part of a larger agenda to combat immigration.

The trick of Vans is cheap and transparent, although there is no doubt that many Trump’s voters with bad degrees SAT want to think that the only reason that they did not enter at Harvard University is that a foreign student took their “place”. The slide on the shoulder of the fans is real enough. Lydia Bulgarin also indicated from the New York TimesYale Valer’s diversity initiatives may help enter their law college, because “a promising white candidate from a province sends a few students to the elite college like Yale will get a strong look, even if that person is less impressive than other applicants.”

The goals of diversity, such as those that probably helped Verse, are not related to charitable work, but about improving the comprehensive educational experience of all students. This is a multiplier when it comes to schools that recruit foreign students. Bringing talented people from all over the world leads to a better procedure for research and other academic works. This is a major reason that the American universities gathered in such a high behavior and why the United States is a world leader in scientific research. Even Republican voters may not be very eager for the position in which everything is cleansed if they realize that it means expelling all this talent that helps the greatest economy. It may be particularly disturbed when they were reminded that the high quality of American health care depends to a large extent on the flow of doctors and researchers from all over the world.

These tensions erupted December, when billionaire Elon Musk They defended the H1B visa holders of attacks from the correct national influencers from the highest Trump’s call to expel them all. Silicon Valley relies heavily on these highly skilled workers, and MUSK was not accurate in its doubts that the United States would produce enough local engineers to take all these jobs overnight. It has been roasted by Maga Bigwigs like Steve Bannon and Laurra Loomer for this, and the problem has never been solved.

The delusional “anti -Semitic” excuse indicates that the Trump administration is trying to obtain it in both directions. They want to appease Maga, who all believe they will arrive at Harvard University, if there are no Palestinians and Russians on their way. But they do not want to warn wealthy donors, who do not want to see the supply of high skills workers dramatically, which reduces the value of their investments, especially in areas such as technology and medicine. Prevention that they are only chasing some “rioters” getting them there. The base gets racist red meat, while the elite tells itself that most foreign workforce is safe.

The elites, however, deceive themselves if they fall for this. Trump and Keh, Stephen Miller, who seems to be working as real chief staff, real believers when it comes to hoping migrants. There is no doubt that both men, who have modest intelligence at best, are ashamed of it when these foreigners are more intelligent or more than ever. This attack on foreign students is not a deception. There are many of them who are captured or deported very quickly. It also sends the intended message to other foreign students not to come to American competitors in Europe and Asia will benefit from brain migration to their countries. It is just another way that makes Trump the United States less powerful and poorer.