State Secretary Marco Rubio defended the detention and potential deportation of former former organizer of Colombia University, as critics claim that it is against the first reform.
Talking to reporters at Shannon Airport in Ireland on Wednesday, Rubio said the issue was not about “free speech.” Rubio discussed the situation during the refueling stop in the way of G7 Foreign Ministers A meeting in Canada After negotiating the Ukraine war in Saudi Arabia.
A federal judge in Manhattan is expected to consider arguments from Khalil’s lawyers challenging their green card from Khalil’s lawyers on Wednesday morning.
Rubio said, “When you come to the United States as a visitor, a visa – this person who entered the visitor’s visa in this country – as a visitor, we can deny you that visa,” Rubio said. “You tell us when you apply, ‘Hi, I am trying to enter the United States on a student visa. I am a great supporter of Hamas, a murderer, barbar group, who kidnapped children, who rape teenagers, who allows them to die, if you see them, That is in favor of this, I intend to come to your country as a student, and the antisymetic activities, I intend to close your universities, ‘If you apply for your visa, we will deny your visa. ”
White House: Rubio reserves the right to cancel a visa of Green Card or Israel anti -Israel worker Mahmood Khalil
State Secretary Marco Rubio speaks to the media during a refueling stop at Shannon Airport, Ireland, on March 12, 2025. (Saul Loeb/Pool/AFP by Getty Images)
“If you are really in this country on such a visa in this country, we will cancel it, and if you keep it here, not citizenship, but a green card, but the green card as a result of that visa, when you are doing those activities here, we will kick you. It’s not so easy.” Rubio said. “This is about people who have no right to start in the United States. No one has the right to a student visa. No one has the right to a greed card by the way.”
“So when you apply for a student visa or any visa to enter the United States, we have the right to reject you virtually for any reason, but I think Hamas is a supporter and turns them down and turned down to them, clear offenses, sabotage, close institutions. “There are children in these schools that you can’t go to class. You pay all this money to these high precious schools that are considered very respectable, and you can’t even go to class. You will be afraid to go to class because there is a horrible screaming crazy with a cover on their faces.
Federal immigration authorities arrested Khalil in the apartment part of his university in New York on Saturday, and he was shifted to a detention center in Louisiana. Student organizer, Khalil, was born for Palestinian parents in Syria during the anti -Israel opposition last year and the US to participate in Colombia in 2022 A student visa was given to enter. He has since obtained a green card and married an American citizen, who is eight months pregnant.
JC Form, a US district judge of Southern District in New York, temporarily blocked Khalil’s deportation on Monday. His lawyers argue that under his constitutional right of free speech and the proper process under the first and fifth amendments, and entered the motion challenging Khalil’s detention. They are forcing Khalil to return to New York, while lawyers at the Trump administration say they intend to propose or transfer the case outside the southern district of New York by Wednesday night. They say the Manhattan Federal Court is “inappropriate place.”
A federal judge in Manhattan is expected to consider arguments from Khalil’s lawyers challenging their green card from Khalil’s lawyers on Wednesday morning.
On Monday, March 10, 2025, in New York City, Protesters gathered in Folly Square to oppose Mahmood Khalil’s arrest. (Barry Williams/Getty Images by New York Daily News/Tribune News Service)
Sources tell Fox News that Khalil is being investigated as a potential national security threat. State Department officials say the U.S. Khalil’s activities in “will have the consequences of a potentially serious foreign policy for the United States.”
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White House Press Secretary Carolin Leevit said on Tuesday that the immigration and nationality act gives Rubies the right to cancel the green card or visa from the United States as opposed to the United States’ national security interests, “and Khalil, a major manner, Mensur, Manser, Manser, Mensur. Chaties ”took advantage of the privilege of studying the United States.
President Donald Trump, Right, with White House senior adviser, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Alon Musk, Vashington Shington, DC. On March 11, 2025 speaks with the Tesla model Y at the White House’s South LN. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))
After riding in Tesla with Alon Musk at the White House, Trump addressed his promise that Khalil’s detention would be the first of many people related to antisematic campus unrest.
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“I think we should all of them out of the country. They are in trouble. They are agitators. They do not love our country. We should be out of hell.” Trump said on Tuesday. “I heard his statements too. There were plenty of bad. And I think we should be outside the country … I saw it, I saw the tape, in particular, I saw the tape…> you can get it, okay? You can keep it, and you can get the rest. ”
“Let them go to school, let them learn. Colombia is used as a good school. Now it has moved a lot because of bad leadership. This happens. It happens, it happens to universities, and it happens to companies,” Trump said.
Fox News’ Maria Peronich and Bill Melugin contributed to the report.
