Secretary of State Marco Rubio was requested on Thursday to elucidate 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 check 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 faculty buildings, they are going to be despatched packing.
He makes use of the analogy of inviting somebody into your property. If a visitor started vandalizing and destroying your property, you’d eject that particular person.
Transcript through Real Clear Politics:
QUESTION: Mr. Secretary, a Turkish scholar 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 conflict.
May you assist us perceive what the particular motion she took that led to her visa being revoked and what was your State Division’s function in that course of?
SECRETARY OF STATE MARCO RUBIO: We revoked her visa. It’s an F1 visa, I consider. 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?
If you happen to go apply for a visa proper now anyplace on the planet, let me simply ship this message out. If you happen to apply for a visa to enter america and be a scholar, and also you inform us that the explanation why you’re coming to america isn’t just since you wish to write op-eds, however since you wish 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 provide you with a visa.
If you happen to 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 straightforward.
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 begin 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 enable individuals to come back and disrupt?
We gave you a visa to come back and examine and get a level, to not turn out to be a social activist that tears up our college campuses.
Watch all of this, it’s nice:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio provides an evidence for deporting alleged terrorist sympathizer and Tufts PhD scholar Rumeysa Ozturk:
“Let me be abundantly clear: If you happen to apply for a scholar visa to come back to america and also you say you’re coming not simply to check, however to… pic.twitter.com/ioMuo9yEbl
— Bostonians In opposition to 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 know?
