Stephen Miller Defends Trump Administration Policy To Crackdown On Student Visas For Chinese Nationals

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller spoke with the press on Friday, where he was asked about student visas for Chinese nationals.

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00:00Can you talk about what...

00:13Well, the State Department is putting that in place right now,

00:17so I don't want to get ahead of Secretary Rubio in how exactly that's going to be developed.

00:22So, details to come.

00:23But as a general matter, the policy is going to be

00:26that we're not going to be awarding visas to individuals

00:29who have a risk of being engaged in any form of malign conduct in the United States,

00:34which, of course, would include espionage, theft of trade secrets,

00:38theft of technology, or other actions that would degrade the security of our industrial base.

00:43At the same time, there's a deeper issue here, too.

00:46J.D. Vance has spoken about it as well,

00:48about that we don't do enough in this country to reward and celebrate American genius.

00:54You know, we, in the 20th century, during a period of very low migration,

01:03led the modern world in everything, aviation, space flight, technology, national development, medicine, everything,

01:10using our own genius here in this country.

01:12And so, of course, we want to have an immigration policy that allows, just as we did during the World War II area,

01:21people have specialized knowledge to be able to contribute to our national economic security.

01:26What we can't do is have a system that deprives Americans of an opportunity to contribute to their own country.

01:32And we can't have a policy in America where every citizen of this country,

01:37whether they're looking for a job, whether they're looking for housing,

01:41whether they're looking for a government benefit in a time of need,

01:45has to compete with all of planet Earth.

01:47Because then you're not a nation anymore.

01:49At that point, you're just a world economy.

01:51You're just a world economy.