Rubio says he canceled 300 or more visas in Trump’s deportation

Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has estimated that he may have signed more than 300 letters to cancel students’ visas, visitors and others to expel them from the United States because of their views of foreign policy or their criminal activities.

He has recorded letters daily to cancel visas since he took office in late January. Mr. Rubio told the reporters on Thursday evening on a passenger plane in the Air Force running between Paramaribo, Surinam and Miami, where he lives with his family. Mr. Rubio concluded a three -country round in the Caribbean and South American region.

“I don’t actually know whether the student visas are primarily,” he said. “It is a mixture of visas. They are visitors to the country. If they take activities that contradict our foreigners, and our national interest, to our foreign policy, we will play the visa.”

He said that he reviewed each case himself before signing the measures that immigration agents will take. Mr. Rubio said that the visa holder accused of a crime while he was in the United States should be automatically lost. It is also Permanent residents expelled By stripping them of their green cards.

“My criteria: If we know this information about it before we give them a visa, would we allow them to enter?” He said. “If the answer is no, we play the visa.”

Mr. Rubio refused to say how the issues reached his office. “We will not talk about the process with which we define because we are looking clearly that we are looking for more people,” he said.

Mr. Rubio was the largest assistant to President Trump, who participated in controversial deportation efforts in societies throughout the United States. In mid -March, Mr. Rubio It has been completed A deal that President Nayeb approved a pet agent from El Salvador to accept US deportations with 200 immigrants, who were placed in prison there.

At least, some migrants fled to the United States from the repressive Fenzuela government government and were not criminals, their lawyers say, but the United States failed to give them the due legal measures while they are detention and deportation.

Mr. Rubio also asked the Ministry of Internal Security to detention students or new graduates to deport because of what he called their opposition to American foreign policy.

He told reporters on Thursday at a press conference in Georgetown, Guaana, that he had canceled the student visa a PhD at the University of Tawtas and Volibright researcher from Türkiye. The student, Rumeysa Oztuk, was one of the authors of the Talib newspaper article Last year, calling for university support for Palestinian rights and the disposal of Israel.

After Mr. Rubio, six people wearing black clothes and some wearing masks – are supposed to be federal factors – She seized it from the street Outside her home in Sompeel, Mass.

Mr. Rubio has also signed a permanent residence status of two other requests who participated in the pro -Palestinian protests at Columbia University: Mahmoud Khalil, born in Syria, and Yunusu Chung, born in South Korea.

Mr. Khalil, 30, is married to an American citizen who was eight -year -old for immigration agents Seize it From their home in New York this month and took it to a detention center in Louisiana.

Mrs. Chong, 21, was in the United States since the age of seven with her family.

Mr. Rubio was named in separate lawsuits filed by Mr. Khalil and Mrs. Chung, in addition to other legal challenges in the visa, green cards and attempt to deport.

In the case of Ms. Chong, a federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop her efforts to deport her.

Mr. Rubio strongly defended the procedures when he was asked in recent days. He avoided talking about the details of each case, but he described many people who visited them or their green cards as activists in movements that exposed the participants who destroyed the buildings, carried sabotage gatherings in universities and prevented other students from attending the class.

“At some point, I hope that we will run out because we all got rid of them.” “But every day we are looking for these crazy people who tear things.”

He added: “I encourage every country to do this, by the way, because I think it is crazy to invite students to your country who come to your campus and destabilize its stability.”

Critics say that the actions of Mr. Trump and Mr. Rubio are similar to those taken by authoritarian governments that seek to suppress freedom of expression and gathering.

On Thursday, Mr. Rubio twice was asked whether the Chinese Communist Party officials and authorities in Hong Kong were the right to deport foreign students participating in the 2019 supportive protests in Hong Kong. As Sinatoria from Florida, Mr. Rubio supported the protests through legislation, although some of the demonstrators’ work disrupted universities and public life.

On the plane, Mr. Rubio said: “Well, every country in the world can deny visas for those who want. It’s simple. This is a fact. Whether we like it or not, they can deny the visas.”