A strike and you are out: Trump’s rigorous ‘catch and review’ rules can spend their visa on minor offenses to foreign students

In a dramatic growth of its immigration enforcement agenda, the Trump administration rolled out a new policy to the US government to be able to cancel visa of foreign nationals – students, workers and visitors – even for even minor legal violations.
The “Catch and Rivok” instructions unveiled by State Secretary Marco Rubio in the 30 April edition of the state department’s newspaper introduce a strict one-stroke rule. “Whenever the government catches non-American citizens by breaking our laws, we will take action to cancel their situation,” Rubio said, a visa is “a privilege, not a right.”
While the policy designs priority reconstruction for crimes such as domestic violence and attacks, its broad and vague language has attracted backlash. “He snatched a student visa from people to intensify tickets,” said Aaron Realin-Melnik of the US Immigration Council. “Now they are suggesting that they will do the same for everyone.”
Niti also made foreign students allegedly singing to support Hamas or to join the Palestinian Campus. Rubio recently convicted the Biden administration for failing to protect the Jewish students during unrest in the premises. He wrote, “He allowed the campus buildings to overcome violent thugs,” he wrote.
Citing the Immigration and Nationality Act, Rubio said that student visa holders would be found to support or support terrorist groups. The policy manufactures intelligence with law enforcement to immediately identify and cancel such a visa.
Rubio also tied the new rule for comprehensive reforms under Trump’s second term. In his 100-day statement, he claimed that the state department had converted to “a lean machine” by destroying offices such as the Global Engagement Center, making the NGOs to cut funding and to eliminate bureaucracy.
Additional executive functions require American universities at risk of disclosing all foreign funding sources or losing federal support, the purpose of measures seen as sympathy for the US opponents in international students and institutions.
Rubio defended changes as a requirement for national security. “The time to take advantage of the generosity of our country ends,” he wrote.
The new policy corresponds to Trump’s broad America’s first strategy, including diplomatic efforts to expel China from the management of the Panama Canal, pressurizing NATO colleagues to increase defense spending, and rearring Hothis as a foreign terrorist organization.
Legal resistance is already running. Many visas revives have been reversed in court, expected more challenges. Civil Liberty groups argue that the policy can violate the fixed process and cold -free speech.
Secretary Rubio was sworn in on 21 January 2025. “With a adjacent reorganization, which will remove the talent of the department from the ground-up,” he concluded, “the State Department continues to play an important role in ensuring the safety, security and prosperity of the American people.”