Secretary of State Marco Rubio was requested on Thursday to elucidate why a Tufts pupil 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 the US to review at a school 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 house. If a visitor started vandalizing and destroying your house, you’ll eject that individual.
Transcript by way of Actual 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.
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 in all places. Let me be abundantly clear, OK?
In case you go apply for a visa proper now wherever on this planet, let me simply ship this message out. In case you apply for a visa to enter the US and be a pupil, and also you inform us that the rationale why you’re coming to the US isn’t just since you need to write op-eds, however since you need to take part in actions which can be concerned in doing issues like vandalizing universities, harassing college students, taking on buildings, making a ruckus, we’re not gonna provide you with a visa.
In case you misinform us and get a visa after which enter the US and with that visa take part in that kind of exercise, we’re gonna take away your visa. And when you’ve misplaced your visa, you’re not legally in the US, and now we have a proper, like each nation on this planet has a proper, to take away you from our nation. So it’s simply that easy.
I believe it’s loopy. I believe it’s silly for any nation on this 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 this planet permit individuals to return and disrupt?
We gave you a visa to return and examine and get a level, to not develop 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 the US and also you say you’re coming not simply to review, 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 grasp?
