Cue the violins. So now The Guardian wants us to feel bad. Why? Because foreign students are having a hard time getting into the United States after President Trump paused their visa interviews. There is “panic” and “confusion,” apparently. My stomach must be made of stone because I didn’t feel a thing.
Meanwhile, here in reality, my neighbor’s daughter just got rejected from three colleges she could not even afford in the first place. She is brilliant. Honor student. Waitressing six nights a week just to scrape together her first semester somewhere local. But no tear-streaked op-eds for her. No global sob stories.
See, this is the part they do not want to talk about.
For decades, America has bent over backward to educate the rest of the world while our own kids get crushed under a pile of debt, bureaucracy, and nonsense about equity. Try telling the working class family in Michigan or Mississippi that their kid did not get a spot because it went to someone from across the globe who paid full price and smiled politely. That is not a scholarship. That is a sellout. And now we are supposed to care that the ride might be over? Please!
A United States visa is not a participation trophy. It is not a global lottery ticket. It is a privilege that should be granted when and only when it benefits Americans. That is it. This country does not run on foreign feelings and tears. It runs on citizens. Or at least it used to.
We have got millions of Americans… real, born and raised, taxpaying, blue collar Americans who would give anything for a shot at higher education. But we are busy giving that shot to anyone who can spell Stanford on a visa form. Why? Because the universities rake in more cash from foreign students. Because they fit the global image. Because they check the diversity box. And even when they do violently protest, it is never for America. It is always against it.
Let us stop pretending this is about learning. It is about money and global status. Nothing more.
If Harvard, Yale and Berkeley want to be global seminaries, fine. But they can fund it with their own billions. Not ours. No more taxpayer handouts to private universities sitting on stockpiles bigger than state budgets. No more funding ideological fortresses that pretend patriotism is somehow offensive. You want to educate the world? Build your global classroom in Brussels.
Meanwhile, here in America, we have veterans being told their benefits do not go far enough or that they expire 15 years after separation. We have single mothers balancing work, school, and survival. We have kids in forgotten towns who cannot get the time of day from the college admissions offices unless they are checking a preferred box.
But sure, let us worry about Ahmed’s dream to study political science in Massachusetts. That is what really matters, right? Wrong!!
This is not about hatred or fear. It is about fairness. It is about priorities. And yes, it is also about keeping out the hate, the hate of freedom, the hate of our Judeo-Christian values, and the growing, dangerous hate of Jews that too many of these imported student movements bring with them. Finally, we have a President reminding us that America is not a service provider for the global elite. It is a sovereign nation with borders, with values worth protecting, and with a duty to put its own people first.
So yes, let the foreign students panic a little. Let them wait. Let them wonder. Because that is exactly what Americans have been doing for years… waiting for their shot while watching the system work against them.
The visa pause is a start. A wake up call. And hopefully, a shift in the winds.
We do not owe anyone a dorm room. We owe our citizens a future.
If the universities and their global donors are upset, they can take their outrage and their checkbooks overseas. God knows they have enough safe spaces in the European Union.
