U.S. Foreign Minister Marco Rubio said on Thursday that the US Foreign Ministry may have revoked more than 300 visas and warned that the Trump government had imprisoned and revoked the visa of a Turkish student at Tuffs University every day after “these insane” after Washington.
Rubios comments were on a question about Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish student who was arrested on Tuesday evening in Somerville, Massachusetts, outside of Boston by Masked and Plainclothes Agents. Her detention was the latest measure by Trump administration against a foreign student who had supported the Palestinians in the Israel war in Gaza.
“At this point it could be more than 300. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these crazy people, I take their visa away,” said Rubio at a press conference in Guyana, without finding out their elaboration.
“At some point I hope that we would go out because we all got rid of, but we look for these insane every day, tear things.”
The top diplomat in the United States confirmed that the Foreign Ministry revoked the Ozturk visa, but did not address any details when he was asked what specific Ozturk measures had taken this that had earned such a step.
CCTV videos received by WBTS in Massachus sets shows that the student of Tufts University, Rumeysa Ozturk, is detained by US immigration officers.
Rubio said Washington would take away any visa that was previously issued if the students were to take on actions such as “destroyed, universities who bother students, take over and create a turmoil”.
Rubio did not say whether Ozturk had participated in these activities.
Ozturk, a Fulbright scholar and student in Tufts’ doctoral program for children’s study and human development, was an F-1 visa in the country in the country to study.
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Her arrest took place a year after Ozturk a year ago in the school paper of the school, The Tufts Daily, co -author, who criticized the school’s answer to the calls from students to separate from companies with connections to Israel and “recognize the Palestinian genocide”.
After Oztur’s arrest, her lawyer filed a lawsuit in which she claimed that her detention was illegal.
While a federal judge in Boston had not pulled the US immigration and customs authority (ICE) out of Massachusetts on Tuesday evening, the US Ministry of Justice said on Thursday in a registration that it was now in Louisiana and was arrested outside of Massachusetts when the lawsuit was submitted.
Mahsa Khanbabai, her lawyer, described the claims against her client in a statement late Wednesday and found that she had not been accused of any crime.
“It seems that the only thing she is targeted is her right to freedom of expression,” said Khanbabai.
Khanbabai said that people should “be horrified, as DHS Rumeysa distributed daylight in broad lights”.
Oztur’s followers say that their detention is the first known immigration liability of a student in Boston who is involved with such an activism that was carried out by the Trump administration, which was imprisoned by several students born abroad or involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
The actions were sentenced to attack on freedom of speech, although the Trump government argues that certain protests are anti -Semitic and the US foreign policy can undermine.
Two weeks ago, Ranjani Srinivasan was an international student from India who worked at New York Columbia University. She is now in Canada, after she has fled immigration authorities who were searched for her after her student visa was suddenly revoked. She spoke to David Common in an exclusive interview from Canada.
“The people we get rid of in our country destroy, they are not demonstrators. They take over College campus.
“We want them out. Each of them that I think will throw them out.”
The Attorney General of Massachusetts, Andrea Joy Campbell, described Oztur’s imprisonment “alarming”.
“Based on what we now know, it is worrying that the Federal Administration has decided to attack and capture them, and apparently aimed at a legislative person because of their political views,” said Campbell in a statement. “This is not public security, but a intimidation that should and should be checked closely in court.”
Tufts President Sunil Kumar said in a statement that the school had no knowledge of progress on the arrest he recognized, “worrying” for some members of our community, especially the members of our international community “.
The Turkish embassy in Washington said in a statement that it was in contact with the US State Department, the ICE and other authorities about Ozturk’s detention.
Mahmoud Khalil, a student at Columbia University in the country, was legally arrested by US immigration agents and confronted for his participation in Pro-Palestinian protests. It is one of the first known arrests associated with the threats of the Trump government against student activists.
Ozturk was detained less than three weeks after Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest, a graduate from Columbia University. He calls for his detention after Trump has accused him of supporting Hamas, who denies the Khalil.
The federal immigration officials also try to capture a Columbia University, who was born in South Korea, to hold permanent permanent US students based in the USA and take part in pro-Palestinian protests, a step that is initially blocked by the dishes.
A Lebanese doctor and assistant professor at Brown University in Rhode Island was re-registered this month and deported after the Lebanon after the Trump administration claimed that its phone contained photos that contained the Hisbollah “sympathetic”. Dr. Rasha Alawieh said that she did not support the militant group, but has a look back on her killed leader due to her religion.
The Trump administration has also targeted students from Cornell University in the state of New York, Georgetown University in Washington and the University of Alabama.
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