The U.S. State Department has revoked hundreds of visas and conducted hundreds of visas during its review, mainly targeting foreign nationals engaged in Pro-Palestine activism.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio confirmed the scale of the crackdown, announcing that he had cancelled visas for more than 300 people related to the Pro-Palestine protests on U.S. campuses and promised to continue to act every day.
When asked about Rubio when visiting Guyana, South America, Rubio said: “There may be 300 visas for this.
The latest example of the policy implementation is that U.S. immigration authorities detained Tufts University’s Tufts PhD student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish doctoral student at the Fulbright Scholarship, in the widespread daylight of masked agents in Plafols.
Her arrest and visa revocation came after her support for Palestinians in Gaza in an op-ed article co-written in student newspapers. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) claims she is “engaging in activities that support Hamas”, a reason denounced as a direct attack on academic freedom and the erosion of freedom of speech and personal freedom.
Rubio said in her case: “We revoked her visa… Once you lose your visa, you are no longer legally in the United States… If you enter the United States as a visitor and cause a commotion for us, we don’t want it. We don’t want it.
The Trump administration has also taken other restrictive measures, including suspending green card processing for certain refugees and asylum seekers and issuing a global directive directing visa officials to refuse entry to trans athletes, few of which.
The State Department claimed in a statement to Fox News that it “revoked visas for more than 20 people” and said under the banner hundreds were considering what they called “national security issues.”
“Overall, we continue to process hundreds of visa reviews to ensure visitors do not violate their visa terms and pose no threat to the United States and our citizens,” the statement said.
