Tuberville Wants to Ban International Students From These Countries [View all]

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During a Thursday Fox Business appearance, Alabama Senator and gubernatorial candidate Tommy Tuberville announced that he’s introducing a bill to ban international students from Iran, China, and North Korea.

Tuberville recalled attending a recent graduation ceremony whose program, he said, included “40 Chinese nationals [getting] their degree in engineering and cyber,” leading him to the conclusion: “We are funding our own demise.”

“We have to do everything we possibly can to penalize universities that drop the ball on this agenda because if we don’t do that, we are not going to educate our kids,” Tuberville said.

The senator also claimed that international students are displacing American students, who “apply, but they can’t get in because there’s no slots for them, because of all the foreign nationals coming in.” To that end, he said his bill includes provisions to limit the total number of international students, while the focus is to keep students from rival countries out.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/tommy-tuberville-thinks-too-many-192503576.html

Pretty certain no one from North Korea attends college in the US. I knew of one guy from Iran who played on one of the Oregon college's basketball team. Other than that, I think Tuberville is just showboating.