The Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, estimated that he had signed more than 300 letters, revoking the visas of students, visitors and others to force his expulsion from the United States due to his opinions of foreign policy or criminal activities.
He has been signing letters daily to revoke the visas since taking office in late January, Mr. Rubio told journalists on Thursday night aboard a jet of air force passengers traveling between Paramarribo, Surinam and Miami, where he lives with his family. Mr. Rubio concluded a tour of three nations in the Caribbean and South America.
« I don’t really know if it’s mainly student visas, » he said. « It is a combination of visas. They are visitors to the country. If they are doing activities that hire our foreigner, our national interest, for our foreign policy, we will revoke the visa. »
He said he reviewed each case before signing actions that immigration agents would be taken. Mr. Rubio said that a visa headline accused of a crime while in the United States would have to automatically lose his visa. So is it Expel residents from the permanent United States When undressing their green cards.
« My standard: If we knew this information about them before we gave them a visa, would we have allowed them to enter? » he said. « And if the answer is no, we revoke the visa. »
Mr. Rubio refused to say how cases came to his desk. « We will not talk about the process we identify with because we obviously look for more people, » he said.
Mr. Rubio has been the greatest assistant of President Trump involved in controversial deportation efforts to the United States communities. In mid -March, Mr. Rubio completed An agreement in which President Nayib Bukele, of El Salvador, agreed to accept North -American deportation flights with more than 200 migrants, who were put in prison.
At least some of the migrants had fled to the United States of Venezuela’s repressive autocratic government and were not criminals, according to their lawyers, but the United States did not give them due to the process during their arrest and deportation.
Mr. Rubio also told the National Security Department that he detained recent students or graduates for his deportation due to what he called his opposition to North -American Foreign Policy.
Told journalists on Thursday at a press conference in Georgetown, Guyana, who had revoked a student visa Tufts University Doctorate Student and Fulbright Scholar of Turkey. The student, Rumeysa Ozturk, was one of the various authors of a student newspaper essay Last year he requested university support for the Palestinian rights and divestment of Israel.
After Mr. Rubio’s action, six people in black clothes and some masks, allegedly federal agents, seized her from a street Out of his house in Somerville, Mass.
Mr. Rubio has also been signed to eliminate the permanent residence status of two other students who participated in pro-palestinian protests at Columbia University: Mahmoud Khalil, born in Syria and Yuseo Chung, born in South Korea.
Mr. Khalil, of 30 he took him From home in New York this month and took him to a Louisiana detention center.
Ms. 21 -year -old Chung has been in the United States since he was 7 years old with his family.
Mr. Rubio has been appointed in separate demands filed by Mr. Khalil and Mrs. Chung, as well as other legal challenges in the revocations of green visa and cards and deportations.
In the case of Ms. Chung, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop his efforts to deport her.
Mr. Rubio has strongly defended actions when he asked him in recent days. He has avoided talking about each case, but described many of the people who have stripped up buildings, have maintained disturbing rallies at universities, and prevented other students from attending other students.
« At some point I hope we are left because we have gone away from everyone, » he told Guyana. « But we look for these lunatics every day that are tearing things up. »
He added: « I encourage all the countries to do it, by the way, because I think it is madness to invite students to your country who arrive on your campus and destabilize it. »
Critics say that the actions of Mr. Trump and Mr. Rubio are similar to those who take authoritarian governments that seek to suppress free expression and assembly.
On Thursday, Mr. Rubio wondered twice if, under his reason, Chinese Communist Party officials and Hong Kong authorities had the right to deport foreign students involved in the 2019 Pro-Democracy Protests in Hong Kong. As Florida Senator, Mr. Rubio supported protests through legislation, although some of the protesters’ actions interrupted campuses and public life.
On the plane, Mr. Rubio said: « Well, all countries in the world can deny visas to anyone. It’s so simple. It is a fact. Whether we like it or not, they can deny visas. »
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