The U.S. State Department reportedly plans to use artificial intelligence (AI) to help identify foreign students who have demonstrated support for Hamas and other terrorist organizations, Axios reported Thursday.
The technology is used to review social media accounts of tens of thousands of student visa holders for counter-terrorism content that could be used to revoke visa status. According to To axios. In October 2023, violent pro-Hamas protests took over dozens of university campuses since the fatal attacks on Israel, and the Trump administration vowed to end anti-Semitism demonstrations.
“The State Department is committed to protecting our country and its citizens through our visa process by supporting the highest standards of national security and public safety,” a State Department spokesman told the Daily Callenor News Foundation. “People who support foreign terrorist organizations are threatening our national security. The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors supporting terrorists. Violators of US law, including international students, may face denial or expiration of visas. The department has broad authority to revoke a visa under section 221(i) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA). It exercises that authority when information is revealed to indicate that visa holders may not be eligible for a visa.”
The department did not specifically review plans to use AI technology.
One of the promises of President Donald Trump’s campaign was to end the campus turmoil Deport radical foreign students “Make our university campuses safe and patriotic again.” The president has recently repeated this sentiment in a true society. postforeign campuses say “Agitators will be imprisoned/or sent back to the country they came to forever.”
Protesters gathered at countless universities across the country to support terrorist groups, pitched illegal multi-week camps, disrupted the university’s functions and harassed Jewish students. The incident led to federal investigations into some of the biggest criminals. This has discovered that many universities deal with violence, enact meaningful punishments for demonstrators, and sometimes even tolerate anti-Semitism. (Related: DEI officials were fired after Jewish students were told they were “wealthy, privileged” and enforced universities)
Secretary of State Marco Rubio has taken a clear stance towards terrorist supporters, and in a recent X post, said such individuals pose a national security threat.
“People who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, threaten our national security,” Rubio I said. “The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors supporting terrorists. Violators of US law, including international students, face visa denials or cancellations and deportation.”
People who support designated terrorist organizations, including Hamas, are threatening our national security. The United States has zero tolerance for foreign visitors supporting terrorists. Violators of US law, including international students, face visa denial or lapse.
– Secretary Marco Rubio (@secrubio) March 6, 2025
Trump previously accused the Biden administration of failing to properly deal with incidents on campus.
“It’s a dishonorable thing about what’s going on at the university level and at Columbia University at New York University. And it’s really in Biden,” Trump said in April 2024. “He has the wrong signal. He has the wrong tone. He has the wrong words. He has the wrong words. He doesn’t know who is supporting. And it’s confusing.”
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