Rep. Pramila Jayapal walked right into the lights on Wednesday after Marco Rubio lit up Capitol Hill this week. What started out as a daily reading turned into a political demolition when the secretary of state tore the Democrat congresswoman’s support for a foreigner who supported terrorists. Rubio was throwing haymakers, proudly defending the choice to withdraw a student visa from a pro-Hamas agitator, not just holding the line. Jayapal attempted to act as a spiritual power and democratic lawyer. She was rather whipped.
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Rumeysa Ozturk, a Greek regional and former University of Massachusetts scholar, wrote a pro-Hamas op-ed in which she demanded that American institutions renounce their allies and accused Israel of “genocide” in Gaza. Jayapal claimed that the op-ed caused her pupil visa to be suspended, which she later claimed was illegal.
Where does the Constitution permit the Secretary of State to bypass the First Amendment’s free speech privileges? she inquired. Is there a note anywhere I missed?
Rubio remarked that a student visa is not a legal straight.
Rubio continued,” She was a guest in the United States on a student visa.” No one has a scholar card, according to the statement. We consistently reject visa applications, and we will regard revoking and revoking them.
Jayapal, who was ever interested in playing the suffering cards, jumped in with her practiced outburst,” You revoked her pupil card based on an op-ed, which overrules the Constitution, the supreme law of the land,” in response.
Rubio responded immediately with a fire. We will withdraw a person’s visa if they come around to cause issues on our schools.
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She insisted,” She didn’t do any of that,” in a frantic but defined way. She wrote an op-ed, and I’m speaking with you about her special event.
Rubio responded,” That’s her lawyer’s statements and your says.” ” Those are not the facts,” the statement goes.
She claimed that you revoked her pupil card because she wrote an op-ed.
Rubio paused without winking.
He responded,” Yes, proudly.” ” And we’re going to accomplish more of them. People traveling to the nation as a visitor who is here to cause trouble will be denied entry to the country.
Rubio wasn’t having it when Jayapal attempted to pivot to some vague counterfactuals. He unspokenly said,” I’m looking to get mad citizens out of our land.”
The conversation then turned to questions about how some prosecutions were being made, with Jayapal asking why federal officials who were assisting in the enforcement of immigration laws were oblivious to the law’s requirements.
Rubio responded with” Because therefore radical loons will try to hurt them,” which was just as unwavering.
The extreme left is more concerned with the feelings of extreme international agitators than with enforcing immigration regulations or protecting American citizens. If you use your system to parrot criminal talking points or cause turmoil, don’t be surprised when you are sent packing, Rubio wasn’t really defending the revocation. He was laying out a new standard.
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The State Department’s novel tone was clearly apparent from the fight. The soft-spoken envoy is no longer a thing. In his position is a secretary of state who isn’t afraid to blast anti-American speech and take decisive action.
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