US State Secretary Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the State Department has canceled more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump administration was watching “in Lunatics” every day, when Washington detained this week and canceled a Turkish student’s visa at Tufts University.
Rubio’s comments were in response to a question about Rumca Ozturk, a Turkish student, in Somarville, Massachusetts outside Boston on Tuesday evening, detained by masked and plainclothing agents. His custody was the latest Trump administration action against a foreign student, which supported Palestinians in the Israeli war in Gaza.
Rubio said at a press conference in Guyana, “It can be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take their visas,” Rubio said at a press conference in Guyana, whose visa was canceled without expansion.
Talking to reporters on the aircraft back in Washington, Rubio said that 300 canceled visa was a combination of students and visitor visas. He said that he signed every action.
“At some point, I hope we run out because we have got rid of all of them, but we are looking for these lunes every day that are tearing things that are tearing.”
The top American diplomat confirmed that the state department canceled the visa of the Ojturk, but did not address the details when asked what specific action Ojturk had taken, which merged such a step.
Rubio said Washington would take away any visa that was previously released if students would participate in ruckus such as “barbaric universities, harassing students, taking buildings, making an uproar,”. ,
Rubio did not say whether Ojturk had participated in the activities, but he said that what he was presented about his case, “met the standard of those who are supporters of movements who run counter to the United States foreign policy.”
A Fulbright Scholar and student Ojturk at the Tuft’s doctoral program for Child Studies and Human Development was in the country on F -1 visa for study.
Ojturk arrested an opinion at the school’s student paper, Tufts Daily a year after co-writing, which criticized the Medford, Massachusetts-based university, which students to divide from companies with Israel relations and “to accept Palestinian genoside”.
Following the arrest of Ojturk, his lawyer filed a case that argued that his detention was illegal.
While on Tuesday night, a federal judge in Boston ordered us immigration and customs enforcement to not go out of Massachusetts without a 48 -hour notice to immigration and customs enforcement, in a filing on Thursday, the US Justice Department said that she was now in Louisiana and was taken into custody outside Massachusetts at that time.
His lawyer Mahsa Khanbai on Wednesday in a late statement called his customer “baseless” and said that he was not accused of any crime.
Khanbai said, “It seems that he is being targeted for only one thing.”
Ojaturk supporters say their detention is the first known immigration arrest of a Boston-region student engaged by the Trump administration, which has been detained or several foreign-linked students who are legally in the US and are involved in protest against Pro-Pilgians.
Work has been condemned by critics as an attack on free speech. The administration of Republican President Donald Trump argues that some are anti -opposition and can reduce US foreign policy.
Rubio said at a press conference in Surinem on Thursday on Thursday, “Those who are getting rid of in our country are vandalism, they are not protesters. They are handling college complexes. They are harassing fellow students … they are not demonstrating, they are going beyond the demonstrations,” Rubio said at a press conference on Thursday.
“We want them out. Each of them think, we are going to take them out.”
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