‘Congress wants to finish China’s exploitation of our scholar visa program,’ Rep. Riley Moore mentioned.
A bunch of Home Republicans on Friday launched laws to ban Chinese language residents from acquiring U.S. scholar visas, citing nationwide safety considerations related to the Chinese language Communist Occasion (CCP).
Rep. Riley Moore (R-W. Va.), a first-term congressman who sits on the Appropriations Committee, led the “Cease Chinese language Communist Prying by Vindicating Mental Safeguards in Academia Act of 2025,” or the “Cease CCP VISAs Act of 2025.”
“Yearly we permit practically 300,000 Chinese language nationals to come back to the U.S. on scholar visas. We’ve actually invited the CCP to spy on our army, steal our mental property, and threaten nationwide safety,” Moore mentioned in a press release to The Epoch Occasions.
“Congress wants to finish China’s exploitation of our scholar visa program. It’s time we flip off the spigot and instantly ban all scholar visas going to Chinese language nationals,” Moore added.
It says that “an alien who’s a nationwide of the Folks’s Republic of China might not be issued a visa or in any other case offered standing as a nonimmigrant … for the aim of conducting analysis or pursuing a course of research.”
The invoice is predicted to have an effect on visas issued for educational college students, vocational college students, and change guests.
Cosponsors of the laws embrace Reps. Brandon Gill (R-Texas), Scott Perry (R-Pa.), and Addison McDowell (R-N.C.).
“The Chinese language Communist Occasion is essentially against our American values, and but we now have handed out tons of of hundreds of scholar visas to Chinese language nationals, a lot of whom are state-sponsored spies,” Gill mentioned in a press release to The Epoch Occasions.
Perry instructed The Epoch Occasions it “makes ZERO sense” to permit so many Chinese language nationals to come back to america yearly to “infiltrate American educational establishments.”
McDowell mentioned the act “closes the loopholes on this nationwide safety menace and places America first.”
“It’s clear China is profiting from these visas to spy on our army, steal American analysis, and infiltrate our faculties. Sufficient is sufficient,” he mentioned in a press release.
“China is the world’s principal infringer of mental property. The annual value to the U.S. financial system of counterfeit items, pirated software program, and theft of commerce secrets and techniques is between $225 billion and $600 billion,” the FBI states.