Secretary of State Marco Rubio said the U.S. is working every day to find and remove the visas of foreign student activists believed to be destabilizing universities.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio on Thursday looked to make Washington’s position on the recent visa removal of Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk «abundantly clear» and said anyone found to be «creating a ruckus» will have their visa revoked.
«I don’t care what movement you’re involved in», he told reporters from a press event in Guyana. Why would any country in the world allow people to come and disrupt?
«We gave you a visa to come and study and get a degree, not to become a social activist», he added.
Rubio suggested that after Ozturk wrote a March 2024 op-ed criticizing the university’s ties to Israel amid the war in Gaza, he viewed her actions as equivalent to those who «vandalize universities, harass students, take over buildings, [and] create a ruckus.
