The United States remains a place where “foreign students will want to continue to come to study,” even after the Virginia Tech killings, the U.S. State Department’s spokesman said at a briefing for reporters on Tuesday.
The spokesman, Sean McCormack, said the government issues more than 200,000 student visas every year because American institutions offer “a good environment for students to explore boundaries of knowledge” and “contribute to a body of knowledge in their given area of study.”




