Secretary of State Marco Rubio On Sunday, he defended the pressure of the Trump administration to go and cancel the visas of individual students living in America to participate in protests against the Government of Israel.
Rubio refused questions from Margarten Brbs CBS about Mahmoud Khalil, a University of Columbia A graduate and legal American permanent residence (green card holder) that was arrested and immediately targeted for deportation last weekend after the Trump administration canceled his visa and arrested him in Columbia.
Khalil was a leader in the student protests who developed around the campus, but also differed against anti-Semitism.
His arrest is bitter democrats and civil rights advocates; Khalil did not accuse the crime and did not enter us illegally. His removal is temporarily blocked by the judge.
The head of the US State Department He wouldn’t say, when he pressed Brennan, would the government try to accuse Khalil with a crime. Instead, he offered the defense of the effort he admitted that visa bearers had no right to free speech at all.
“When you apply to enter the United States and you get a visa, you are a guest,” Rubio claimed. “If you tell us when you apply for a visa,” I come to the United States to participate in Pro-Hamas events, “which leads the counter to the external political interests of the United States.”
Khalil and other student treats on Colombia and other universities say they went to large lengths to involve Jewish organizations and students in their movements and spaces; However, the protests that occurred in the end of 2023. years and during 2024. year, in the middle of an increase in both false and actual cases of anti-Semitic incidents at the faculty campuses.
Khalil de deprodation even chased a democratic senator, because the rest of his party warns of the clear reduction of free speech rights that the case represents for people living in America on different types of visas.
John FettermanThe loudest and most conservative pro-Israel’s voice among Senate It is reported that Democratic Caucus mark Khalil’s involvement in protests on federal immigration authorities in the order of pro-Israeli activists.