“In China, the government can control education, high schools, colleges, universities. We thought that the USA could be different," one student said.

Chinese students say they’re questioning their decision to study in the U.S. after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that the federal government will attempt to “aggressively” revoke their visas.

Rubio said Wednesday that Chinese students “with connections to the Chinese Communist Party or studying in critical fields” would be targeted.

Chinese students who spoke to NBC News on Thursday said that they came to the U.S. for freedoms they felt they did not have back in China but that now the Trump administration is starting to resemble the strict regime they left behind.

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    Americans live in a country where people die on the regular because they cannot go to a doctor.

    They regularly have go fund me’s to pay for medical treatment.

    They live in a country that has no guaranteed paternity, sick, or vacation time.

    America is a shit hole country with the veneer of being rich.

    To sum it up America is a third world country with a Gucci belt. It has been that way for a while