Student visas from Muslim countries increased to 127,000 last year

19 Jul, 2015 by Rachel Alexander

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Roughly 14 percent of all annual student visas now come from Muslim countries, a higher proportion than immigrant visas relative to the total immigrant population. As a result, Arabic has become the fastest growing language on U.S. college campuses. 

Conservative Review reports,

By far, the largest number of visas come from Saudi Arabia (remember 9/11?), topping out at 53,919 for the last academic year.  As we noted last year, the Saudi government has unlimited funds to pay for their international students, and with no caps on F1 visas, they could theoretically send hundreds of thousands of students here every year.

Iran has sent us over 10,000 foreign students as well.  What could go wrong?

Oh, and with Mohammad Youssef Adbulazeer on everyone’s mind, it’s important to note that we’ve admitted 7,288 foreign students from Kuwait for that same academic year.
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The rapid increase in Muslim foreign students should also raise concerns in the context of the growing push to bring in more “high skilled” STEM students and workers.  Liberals often blame Jihad on poverty and lack of a promising future for Muslim youth, but the reality is that many of these young Jihadis are smart and affluent with promising careers.  Just look at the lifestyle of the Chattanooga Jihadi and the fact that he held a degree in electrical engineering.
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Seventy-nine percent of Iranian students and 42% of Saudi students were enrolled in STEM programs.