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Rubio: Revoking Columbia U. Graduate's Green Card Is "Not about Free Speech"

(U.S. State Department) Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Wednesday, referring to Columbia University graduate Mahmoud Khalil: "When you come to the United States...on a visitor's visa...we can deny you that [visa.] If you tell us when you apply, 'Hi, I'm trying to get into the United States on a student visa, I am a big supporter of Hamas, a murderous, barbaric group that kidnaps children, that rapes teenage girls, that takes hostages, that allows them to die in captivity, that returns more bodies than live hostages.'" "If you tell us that you are in favor of a group like this, and if you tell us when you apply for your visa, 'And by the way, I intend to come to your country as a student and rile up all kinds of anti-Jewish student, antisemitic activities, I intend to shut down your universities' - if you told us all these things when you applied for a visa, we would deny your visa. I hope we would." "If you actually end up doing that once you're in this country on such a visa, we will revoke it. And if you end up having a green card - not citizenship but a green card - as a result of that visa while you're here and those activities, we're going to kick you out. It's as simple as that." "This is not about free speech. This is about people that don't have a right to be in the United States to begin with...being a supporter of Hamas and coming into our universities and turning them upside down and being complicit in what are clearly crimes of vandalization, complicit in shutting down learning institutions....And if you do it once you get in, we're going to revoke it and kick you out."
2025-03-13 00:00:00
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