Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that Rumeysa Ozturk's visa was terminated due to disruptive protest behavior. He did not cite evidence. The post Rubio defends arrest of Tufts student, says more ‘lunatics’ will be targeted appeared first on Boston.com.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended the arrest and visa revocation of Tufts graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national and "graduate student for Palestine" who co-authored an op-ed calling for Tufts to divest from Israel. Rubio stated the visa was terminated due to disruptive protest behavior, implying Ozturk may have deceived US officials and that more visas of "lunatics" will be revoked for similar behavior. The case is similar to those of other international students at Columbia and Cornell involved in pro-Palestinian protests.
