Rubio warns visas will be revoked for all foreign student ‘activists’ amid Tufts arrest

Secretary of State Marco Rubio connected Thursday looked to marque Washington’s presumption connected the caller visa removal of Tufts University pupil Rumeysa Ozturk "abundantly clear" and said anyone recovered to beryllium "creating a ruckus" volition person their visa revoked.

"I don't attraction what question you're progressive in," helium told reporters from a property lawsuit successful Guyana. Why would immoderate state successful the satellite let radical to travel and disrupt?

"We gave you a visa to travel and survey and get a degree, not to go a societal activist," helium added. 

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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaks during a property league with Guyanese President Irfaan Ali (not pictured), successful Georgetown, Guyana, March 27, 2025.  (Photo by Nathan Howard/Pool/AFP via Getty Images)

Rubio suggested that aft Ozturk wrote a March 2024 op-ed criticizing the university’s ties to Israel amid the warfare successful Gaza, helium viewed her actions arsenic equivalent to those who "vandalize universities, harass students, instrumentality implicit buildings, [and] make a ruckus."

While her op-ed ne'er mentioned enactment for Hamas, the violent network, it did telephone connected the assemblage to divest from companies with ties to Israel and to admit the "Palestinian genocide."

The Department of Homeland Security said it had recovered Ozturk to person "engaged successful activities successful enactment of Hamas," though it has not publically released the grounds down that determination.

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ICE confirmed Tufts University pupil Rumeysa Ozturk's apprehension to Fox News connected Wednesday.

But Rubio connected Thursday maintained that "every state successful the satellite has a close to determine who comes successful arsenic a visitant and who doesn't."

"I promote each state to bash that, by the way, due to the fact that I deliberation it's brainsick to invitation students into your state that are coming onto your field and destabilizing it," helium told reporters. "We're conscionable not going to person it.

 "We'll revoke your visa, and erstwhile your visa is revoked, you're illegally successful the state and you person to leave," Rubio confirmed. 

The caput said the U.S. has frankincense acold revoked immoderate 300 visas.

"We bash it each day. Every clip I find 1 of these lunatics, I instrumentality distant their visa," Rubio said. "At immoderate point, I anticipation we tally retired due to the fact that we've gotten escaped of each of them. But, we're looking each time for these lunatics."

DHS Secretary Kristi Noem toured the El Salvador situation holding hundreds of alleged members of Tren de Aragua who were deported from the U.S. (Credit: Pool)

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Rubio besides highlighted that Washington's propulsion to revoke the visas of "destabilizing" visitors applies not lone to students, but besides to pack members. 

The caput pointed to the administration’s efforts to expel pack members of MS-13 and Tren de Aragua, who were archetypal housed successful the Guantánamo Bay situation earlier being transferred to Venezuela and El Salvador.