Defending Student Deportations, Marco Rubio Equates Writing an Anti-Israel Op-Ed With Starting a Riot

Defending Student Deportations, Marco Rubio Equates Writing an Anti-Israel Op-Ed With Starting a Riot


"If you apply for a visa to enter the United States and be a student," he said, and "the reason why you're coming to the United States is not just 'cause you wanna write op-eds, but because you wanna participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus, we're not gonna give you a visa." Commentary on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is just one of many possible examples, which could include opinions about the war in Ukraine, the U.S. role in European defense, the merits of Trump's trade war, the U.S. response to human rights abuses in other countries, or literally any other foreign policy issue. The law grants the secretary of state "unrestrained power," she said, "authoriz[ing] a heretofore unknown scope of executive enforcement power vis-a-vis the individual with utterly no standards provided to the Secretary of State or to the legal aliens subject to its provisions."

Author: Jacob Sullum


Published at: 2025-03-31 21:09:23

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