Immigration & Border Security

Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced Wednesday that the Trump administration will “aggressively revoke” visas for a segment of Chinese students.

Chinese foreign nationals studying “critical fields” or with ties to the Chinese Communist Party will be among the students targeted for removal, the top US diplomat said. 

The US grants nearly 300,000 student visas to Chinese nationals every year, according to Rep. Riley Moore (R-W.Va.), who introduced legislation to halt the practice earlier this year.

“The CCP poses an existential threat to the US,” Moore wrote on X following Rubio’s announcement. “We should not be letting 300,000 Chinese nationals into our research institutions every year.

“This is a huge move from the Trump Admin, and now Congress must codify the president’s agenda by passing my Stop CCP Visas Act.”

The congressman noted that Beijing’s 2017 National Intelligence Law requires any Chinese organization or citizen to support, assist and cooperate with the state intelligence work –  both at home and abroad.

“We’ve literally invited the CCP to spy on our military, steal our intellectual property, and threaten national security,” Moore said when he unveiled his bill in March. “Just last year, the FBI charged five Chinese nationals here on student visas after they were caught photographing joint US-Taiwan live fire military exercises.

“This cannot continue.”

Both of West Virginia’s congressional representatives voted for the big reconciliation bill that narrowly passed earlier today.

The bill passed the U.S. House of Representatives and is now headed to consideration by the U.S. Senate, where it could face changes.

The legislation, called the One Big Beautiful Bill, passed in a a 215-214-1 vote. Two Republicans voted against the bill, one voted ‘present’ and two did not vote. All Democrats voted against it.

Both Riley Moore and Carol Miller, Republicans of West Virginia, voted in favor of the bill.

“77 million Americans demanded generational change in November,” Moore said, referring to the number of votes received by President Donald Trump in the 2024 election.

“Today, House Republicans delivered on that mandate from the American people.”

After visiting the controversial Salvadoran mega-prison known as the Terrorist Confinement Center (CECOT), freshman Congressman Riley Moore, R-W.Va., says he is "even more determined" to support the president’s efforts to secure the U.S. from criminal illegal aliens.

This comes as the Trump administration’s scheme of sending the "worst of the worst" migrant gang members to CECOT has caused national controversy, with some outraged Democrats accusing President Donald Trump of "kidnapping" people for deportation.

Moore said that while at CECOT he came face to face with some of the country’s "most brutal criminals, including murderers, rapists, pedophiles, and terrorists," and "extremely violent criminals recently deported from the U.S."