Tommy Tuberville wants international students to go home. Their tuition helps American kids.

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U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville has had it with international students from countries that don’t love America.

“You come here. You get a degree. You’re gone,” Tuberville said while pitching his Student Visa Integrity Act on Steve Bannon’s “War Room” show. “Or better than that — if you’re Iranian national or a Chinese national, you don’t come at all. We’re not educating you. Go somewhere else.”

He’s ready to open a new front in the war on higher ed — colleges and universities, he says, are filling their classrooms with foreign students instead of red-blooded American kids.

“We’re going to put our kids first, America first,” Tuberville told Bannon. “Our kids are getting left out.”

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