Republican Rep. Anna Paulina Luna of Florida has urged the US State Department to suspend and cancel all F-1 and J-1 student visas held by Chinese nationals studying at American colleges and universities. She says the move is warranted by recently declassified intelligence, framing it as a national security measure amid wider Republican concerns about Chinese influence and espionage risks on US campuses.

The call comes amid a string of related actions and allegations reported alongside it, including a State Department claim that Cuba built a covert network inside the United States via spies, activists and universities, and a separate Justice Department probe into Harvard's financial aid practices over alleged discrimination against American students. The proposal would affect Chinese nationals currently enrolled at US institutions of higher education, though it remains a request to the State Department rather than an enacted policy change.