Ron Paul is a candidate for President of the United States. His immigration plan is very interesting and should be looked at with careful consideration. We don’t agrees with most of Mr. Paul’s positions but as Investor Business Daily put it , ‘Muslim student visas are no fringe topic.’ And we agree with that assessment too, Muslim student visas need to be considered in the immigration debate. Here is why:

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According to the Center for Immigration Studies, 22 of the 94 foreign-born nationals convicted or indicted on terror charges from 1993 to 2004 were in the U.S. on student visas. And in a little-noticed 2005 deal struck between President Bush and Saudi King Abdullah, 21,000 young Saudi men will gain U.S. student visas by 2009.

This is why we agree with the Investors Business Daily Editorial that says “Killing the special Saudi visa program should be on top of the next president's to-do list.”

Here is an excerpt from the article:

Ron Paul may be a fringe presidential candidate, but Muslim student visas is no fringe topic. It threatens homeland security, and the Republican gadfly deserves credit for raising the issue.

In a controversial ad that's sending his libertarian fans into orbit, Paul proposes tough new immigration policies, including denying visas to Muslim students from terrorist states.

Paul, a congressman from south Texas, also proposes ending "birthright citizenship," which allows the children of Middle Eastern and other illegal immigrants to stay in America. Such anchor babies now include the offspring of jailed or deported terrorists.

We don't agree with many of Paul's positions, but we're glad to see at least some of the millions he's raising online going to good use. We only hope his ad will spark a debate among GOP front-runners. With the exception of Mike Huckabee, none has picked up on this key national security issue.

Al-Qaida and other terror groups are targeting, grooming and radicalizing Muslim youth on U.S. college campuses. These teenagers are being groomed to be suicide bombers. (One in four college-age Muslims in America support suicide bombings, a Pew poll found.)

A recent NYPD intelligence report warned that terrorists have intensified efforts to recruit college students, and it advised Muslim parents to watch their children. Most susceptible to terrorists' poisonous propaganda are foreign nationals. Many are already radicalized when they arrive on student visas.