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 review at a school or college is a privilege and never a proper, and that if folks 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 house. If a visitor started vandalizing and destroying your house, you’ll eject that individual.
Transcript by way of 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.
May you assist us perceive what the precise 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 imagine. We revoked it, and right here’s why, and I’ll say it once more. I’ve mentioned it in every single place. Let me be abundantly clear, OK?
Should you go apply for a visa proper now anyplace on the planet, let me simply ship this message out. Should you apply for a visa to enter america and be a pupil, and also you inform us that the rationale 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 might be concerned in doing issues like vandalizing universities, harassing college students, taking on buildings, making a ruckus, we’re not gonna offer you a visa.
Should you mislead us and get a visa after which enter america and with that visa take part in that type of exercise, we’re gonna take away your visa. And when you’ve misplaced your visa, you’re now not legally in america, and we have now 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 believe it’s loopy. I believe it’s silly for any nation on the planet to welcome folks 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 folks.”
I don’t care what motion you’re concerned in. Why would any nation on the planet permit folks to come back and disrupt?
We gave you a visa to come back and research and get a level, to not grow to be a social activist that tears up our college campuses.
Watch all of this, it’s nice:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio presents an evidence for deporting alleged terrorist sympathizer and Tufts PhD pupil Rumeysa Ozturk:
“Let me be abundantly clear: Should you apply for a pupil visa to come back to america 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?
