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Rubio sets the double standard [1]
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Date: 2025-03-28
Sec. of State Marco Rubio was asked yesterday about the reason for revoking the student visa of Rumeysa Ozturk, the Turkish PhD student studying at Tufts who was apprehended by ICE on Tuesday evening.
To refresh, from general reporting: Ozturk had co-written an op-ed in opposition to the war in Gaza and calling on the university to divest from firms tied to Israel. That’s the only known basis for the State Department to have revoked her student visa, which Rubio says has also been done to at least 300 other foreign students. Without a valid visa, these students have lost their legal status and are subject to deportation, apparently without prior notification, as happened to Ozturk. (Her arrest presents a pretty powerful notification to the others, I guess.) Although a lawsuit was quickly filed, not quick enough to prevent her from being sent out of MA to a detention facility in Louisiana. Either that, or the judge’s order that she not be removed from the state was ignored.
Here’s Rubio’s standard:
"It's not just cause you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not going to give you a visa," Rubio said. [emphasis added]
Must give us pause.
Haven’t we heard of another group of people who participated in a movement that led to taking over and vandalizing a notable public building — the seat of democracy; planting pipe bombs; not just harassing but beating law enforcement officers; and, to grossly understate the case, “creating a ruckus”?
We spent a lot of tax payer dollars giving those Jan. 6th folks due process; then, ultimately, a pardon. I hear tell of a special fund to compensate them for their trouble.
If only we could deport them!
Oh. But then we wouldn’t be sending our best.
Full reporting on Ozturk’s precarious situation down in the land of the 5th Circuit Court here.
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