As part of a Trump presidency initiative aimed at foreigners who are involved in campus protests or destructive activities, Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced on Thursday that the United States had suspended at least 300 scholar permits. Rubio emphasized that the card refunds are a daily effort to eliminate people who, according to the presidency, threaten national security or support terrorist companies like Hamas.
Regarding the withdrawal of student visas, the secretary of state said,” We do it every day. I remove one of these maniacs ‘ visas whenever I find them.
Rubio defended the scheme, claiming that students who falsely enter the country or engage in behaviors like building occupations, harassment, or vandalism will shed their visas.
The program, which has been dubbed” Catch and Revoke,” uses artificial intelligence to observe social media profiles for indications of Hamas-like support for criminal organizations.
The State Department has recently reviewed situations, including the suspension of permits for anti-Israel protesters at Tufts University and Columbia University, where demonstrations led to detention and criticism of school policies. The Trump administration has taken legal action against alleged organizers of the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University last year, which were apparently occupied by Hebrew students and protesters.
Umeys Ozturk, a Turkish Fulbright professor detained by ICE agents, was the subject of a significant event, according to the Department of Homeland Security, which occurred on Wednesday. The Trump presidency “terminated” her pupil visa over her reported “activities in support of Hamas.”
Moreover, according to The Post,” Former Columbia undergraduate Mahmoud Khalil, a green card holder, was detained by ICE on March 8 and is scheduled for imprisonment for supposedly distributing pro-Hamas brochures at the Ivy League school.”
Rubio argued that the plan is essential for national security, suggesting that the situation had to be handled long before before it became too untamed.
Rubio argued in The Post that” I don’t care what activity you’re in.” ” Why would any country in the world permit people to enter and cause trouble?” We gave you a visa to travel to universities to study and earn a education, not to become a social activist who destroys our campus schools.
We don’t want it if you enter the country as a customer and make a hubbub there, he continued. We don’t want it in our nation, they say. Return and carry out the task in your region. However, you won’t do it in our nation.”
