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Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that the State Department has revoked more than 300 student visas, as the Trump administration continues to detain and deport pro-Palestinian student activists at universities across the country.
The wave of revocations is part of a larger push by the Trump administration to punish its perceived enemies or critics and crack down on higher education institutions that the president has lambasted as bastions of liberalism for years.
“Every time I find one of these lunatics I take away their visa,” Rubio told reporters at a press conference in Guyana. “Might be more than 300 at this point. Might be more. We do it every day.”
Rubio’s disclosure of hundreds of visas being pulled came as he responded to questions on Rumeysa Ozturk, a Tufts University doctoral student and Fulbright scholar from Turkey who had her student visa revoked this week. A viral video reposted online by officials from the State Department showed Ozturk — who cowrote an op-ed in a student newspaper criticizing Tufts’ response to the protests — being detained on the street by plainclothes Immigration and Customs Enforcement near the Tufts campus.
If you're here to teach or learn, then teach or learn.
If you're here to start trouble, bye, the US does not need you.
They are guest in this country and should act accordingly.
They need to revoke all Chinese national student visas next. Academia would crumble in a year without the chi-com money.