Universities across the nation have belatedly discovered the meaning of the acronym FAFO, as are foreign students who participated in anti-Semitic intimidation campaigns. Several schools that featured heavily in the pro-Hamas 'encampment' campaign have discovered that their students have had their visas revoked.

Let's start with UCLA and other California schools, which acknowledged the revocations yesterday:

UCLA Chancellor Julio Frenk said Sunday that six current students and six former students participating in a training program have had their visas revoked by the U.S. government.

"In recent days, a number of international students on F-1 status at universities across the nation have had their visas revoked and Student and Exchange Visitor Information System status terminated by the federal government. These actions have understandably created a great deal of questions within our Bruin community," Frenk said Sunday in a letter to the campus community.

"They pay a lot of money to be here, especially at a school like this," one UCLA student lamented, "so I think it's, like, inhumane to take those rights away from someone." First off, it's not inhumane to expect visitors to this country to behave according to the terms of their student visa. Second, they don't have a "right" to be here; a student visa is a privilege, one that can be revoked when the terms of that grant are violated. Third, to the extent that these students participated in intimidation and/or violent behavior toward Jewish students and faculty, this student has her "inhumane" compass entirely backward. Americans have more "right" to be there than foreign students on visas, especially those who attend to get an education rather than engage in political unrest in someone else's country.

Maybe UCLA needs remedial logic added to all of their degree programs. They certainly need remedial civics.

The student nails the point about the money, albeit inadvertently. Foreign students do pay lots of money to these universities and colleges, because they generally don't get scholarships, grants, or residency discounts. That reliable and lucrative revenue is why these schools heavily recruit foreign students in the first place. The Trump administration's new policy of revoking these visas threatens that revenue stream at the same time that other enforcement measures are cutting into other federal revenue streams, such as research grants and other monies.

Trump and Marco Rubio are taking aim at Academia's pockets. And not just in California, either, as CBS News reports this morning:

Three students at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts and two recent graduates have had their student visas revoked, the school confirmed on Sunday.

"Over the past three days, the Harvard International Office (HIO) has learned that three students and two recent graduates have had their student visas revoked. The University learned of the revocations during a routine records review. The HIO notified the students of the revocations and referred them to legal assistance," said Harvard in a statement.

KTLA notes that the number of foreign student visas revoked has gone over 300:

The Trump administration has canceled over 300 international student visas across the nation without warning, including at least nine at UCLA.

As of Sunday, the federal government has not explained why.

Yes, the government most certainly has, as even KTLA admits later:

While the federal government has not directly commented on revoking these student visas, President Trump repeatedly stated that he would use his time in office to enforce his administration’s immigration policies.

In addition, at the top of the ICE website is a yellow banner marked with an exclamation point symbol that reads, in part, “If you are aware of student visa fraud or nonimmigrant students working unlawfully in the U.S., report it here.”

The Trump administration has been as clear as it possibly could be on this policy. They intend to end the violence and intimidation campaigns on American campuses aimed at Jewish students and faculty by revoking visas of any foreign students involved in it. This does not require "due process," as yet another benighted UCLA student complained to KTLA, this time ironically the school's student body president. Student visas are not held by right, and the State Department has the plenary authority to deny them or revoke them for those who violate their terms. That's why students attending American schools on such visas should stick to studying rather than setting up encampments and creating violence and intimidation against others who have every right to be on that campus.

Nevertheless, these students will undoubtedly end up in a court at some point to demand their right to a visa. A few district court judges with equally nonsensical views of "rights" might indulge them for a moment or two, but these students will not end up back on these campuses for long, if at all. This is a foreign-policy question, and executive authority reaches its zenith in foreign policy, especially when it comes to extended privileges offered under clear terms and conditions.

If UCLA students remain confused, perhaps they should ask why the school has left them so unprepared for this reality.