International Students Demonized as Republicans Trumpet Unverified 10,000-Person 'Fraud' Scare Story
Scapegoating & moral-panic mobilization
ICE’s headline figure is repeated to imply a vast foreign-student menace, with GOP voices calling for crackdowns before any public evidence is released. By casting a whole class of immigrants as presumptive criminals, the posts stoke fear and feed nativist demands for harsher restrictions.
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ICE’s headline figure is repeated to imply a vast foreign-student menace, with GOP voices calling for crackdowns before any public evidence is released. By casting a whole class of immigrants as presumptive criminals, the posts stoke fear and feed nativist demands for harsher restrictions.
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