Secretary of State Marco Rubio was requested on Thursday to clarify why a Tufts student from Turkey had her visa revoked and is now slated for deportation.
His reply couldn’t have been extra good.
Rubio calmly defined to the assembled journalists that coming to america to review at a university or college is a privilege and never a proper, and that if individuals come right here to destroy, harass, and take over school buildings, they are going to be despatched packing.
He makes use of the analogy of inviting somebody into your own home. If a visitor started vandalizing and destroying your own home, you’d eject that individual.
Transcript through Real Clear Politics:
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, a Turkish pupil in Boston was detained and handcuffed on the road by plainclothes brokers. A yr in the past, she wrote an opinion piece concerning the Gaza battle.
Might you assist us perceive what the precise motion she took that led to her visa being revoked and what was your State Division’s position in that course of?
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: We revoked her visa. It’s an F1 visa, I imagine. We revoked it, and right here’s why, and I’ll say it once more. I’ve stated it all over the place. Let me be abundantly clear, OK?
In case you go apply for a visa proper now wherever on the planet, let me simply ship this message out. In case you apply for a visa to enter america and be a pupil, and also you inform us that the explanation why you’re coming to america is not only since you need to write op-eds, however since you need to take part in actions which are concerned in doing issues like vandalizing universities, harassing college students, taking up buildings, making a ruckus, we’re not gonna offer you a visa.
In case you deceive us and get a visa after which enter america and with that visa take part in that form of exercise, we’re gonna take away your visa. And when you’ve misplaced your visa, you’re not legally in america, and now we have a proper, like each nation on the planet has a proper, to take away you from our nation. So it’s simply that easy.
I feel it’s loopy. I feel it’s silly for any nation on the planet to welcome individuals into their nation — they’re going to go to your universities as guests, they’re guests, and say, “I’m going to your universities to start out a riot. I’m going to your universities to take over a library and harass individuals.”
I don’t care what motion you’re concerned in. Why would any nation on the planet permit individuals to return and disrupt?
We gave you a visa to return and research and get a level, to not turn into a social activist that tears up our college campuses.
Watch all of this, it’s nice:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio affords a proof for deporting alleged terrorist sympathizer and Tufts PhD pupil Rumeysa Ozturk:
“Let me be abundantly clear: In case you apply for a pupil visa to return to america and also you say you’re coming not simply to review, however to… pic.twitter.com/ioMuo9yEbl
— Bostonians Towards Mayor Wu (@AntiWuCoalition) March 27, 2025
Rubio couldn’t have been extra clear and his response couldn’t have been extra logical. What’s it about this that the left simply doesn’t appear to grasp?
