#Trump takes aim at foreign-born college students, with 300 visas revoked

Some students have been picked up off the street by immigration agents and held in detention centers, sometimes a thousand miles away from their homes, with little warning

By Daniella Silva, Chloe Atkins, Julia Ainsley and Abigail Williams, March 27, 2025

"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio said Thursday the State Department has revoked 300 or more #StudentVisas, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be #activism.

"Rubio warned that the administration was looking out for 'these lunatics.' Around the country, #scholars have been picked up, in some cases by masked immigration agents, and held in #DetentionCenters, sometimes a thousand miles from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they were being detained.

"'It might be more than 300 at this point. We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas,' Rubio said at a news conference in Guyana, where he was meeting with leaders.

"Many of those rounded up by Trump officials attended or were part of the pro-Palestinian movement that swept college campuses last year, and while the administration hasn’t said publicly why these students are being singled out over others, at least one sought by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement appeared on lists made by far-right pro-Israel groups as targets for deportation.

"And Trump allies, many in government again, telegraphed for months before he took office that they’d seek to deport students who openly advocated for Hamas or other U.S.-designated terrorist groups or after they participated in an unauthorized campus #protest and were suspended, expelled or jailed.

"The detentions are a signal of a broader effort by President Donald Trump to clamp down on the actions of legal permanent residents, student visa holders and others who live and work legally in the United States, one that threatens to undermine a fundamental American right to #FreeSpeech and to assemble, experts and advocates said."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/trump-administration-takes-aim-immigrant-students-rcna198346?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us
#USPol #ThoughtPolice #Authoritarianism #Orwellian #CharacteristicsOfFascism #Clampdown #SilencingDissent #CriminalizingDissent #CriminalizingActivism #RightToAssemble #FirstAmendment #USPol

Looking at the "Op-Ed" written by Rumeysa Ozturk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5urGA2MkW8

#Ozturk #USAcademia #CriticalThinking #CivicEngagement #USOppression #MarcoRubio #HumanRightsViolations #Politics #1stAmendment #ICE #ParadoxOfEducation

The Op-Ed in question:
https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

300 victims with valid visas daily find themselves in the crosshairs of ICE.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/27/marco-rubio-student-visas-palestine-00005141

#MarcoRubio #SecretPolice #1930s #ICE #Politics #NonCitizens #HumanRights

[20:37] More than 300 visas revoked in US campus crackdown

More than 300 people have had their visas cancelled by US authorities as part of a move to crack down on support for Palestine on US third level campuses, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

https://www.rte.ie/news/us/2025/0327/1504450-student-visas-us/

#Morethan300 #US #Palestine #third #State #MarcoRubio

US state department begins visa-review process targeting pro-Palestine protesters https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/27/state-department-visas-pro-palestine-protesters #USconstitutionandcivilliberties #Palestinianterritories #Trumpadministration #USimmigration #MarcoRubio #USpolitics #Worldnews #Protest #USnews #Gaza

#GiftArticle

Here Are the Attack Plans That #Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

The admin has downplayed the importance of the text messages inadvertently sent to #TheAtlantic’s editor in chief.

By #JeffreyGoldberg & Shane Harris

#law #NationalSecurity #SignalGate #Signal #idiocracy #kakistocracy #intelligence #USIntelligenceAgencies #JDVance #Hegseth #TulsiGabbard #Ratcliffe #MikeWaltz #MarcoRubio #SusieWiles #Witkoff #StephenMiller
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/signal-group-chat-attack-plans-hegseth-goldberg/682176/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxdIP7nj6nZG7D9Wu-KWAI6M&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

South African Ambassador expelled from US receives grand welcome upon arrival in the country

#BaaghiTV #International #SouthAfrica #Ambassador #EbrahimRasool #US #DonaldTrump #PersonaNonGrata #CapeTown #InternationalCriminalCourt #ICC #Israel #Palestine #MarcoRubio

https://en.baaghitv.com/south-african-ambassador-expelled-from-us-receives-grand-welcome-upon-arrival-in-the-country/

Trump’s strikes on the Houthis show he’s not Joe Biden mumbling ‘Don’t’ https://www.byteseu.com/846170/ #Conflicts #DonaldTrump #Editorial #Hamas #houthis #Iran #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #JoeBiden #MarcoRubio #NuclearWeapons #Opinion #Russia

https://www.europesays.com/1926834/ Trump’s strikes on the Houthis show he’s not Joe Biden mumbling ‘Don’t’ #Conflicts #DonaldTrump #editorial #Hamas #Houthis #Iran #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #JoeBiden #MarcoRubio #NuclearWeapons #opinion #Russia

AmeriKKKa... the #PCPolice 🤣

"Comments from South Africa’s ambassador about the Trump administration were “unacceptable” and “obscene,” State Department spokeswoman Tammy Bruce said.

Secretary of State #MarcoRubio declared Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool “persona non grata”... after the diplomat said that #Trump and his supporters are effectively a “#supremacists” movement projecting “#Whitevictimhood.” "

"#SouthAfrica’s Ambassador Made ‘Unacceptable’ Comments, US Says"

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/south-africa-s-ambassador-ebrahim-rasool-made-unacceptable-comments-us

#Trump WH ofcls said the #DHS, which oversees #ICE, investigated #MahmoudKhalil’s activities, but immigration officers provided no written evidence to support his deportation beyond #MarcoRubio’s determination. The doc, a notice to appear in #immigration court, says Khalil is a citizen of Algeria & has an #immigration court hearing later this month.

#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest

A determination by Secy of #State #MarcoRubio is so far the #Trump admin’s sole justification for trying to deport #ColumbiaUniversity student #MahmoudKhalil, according to the first official government document detailing the civil charges he is facing that was obtained by WaPo.

#law #immigration #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/documents/8a3cbff6-4589-43e1-8455-042fa9555e3c.pdf

Effort to deport #ColumbiaUniversity student rests solely on #MarcoRubio determination

A government document that details the civil charges against #MahmoudKhalil does not include written evidence from #immigration officers.

#law #CivilRights #FreedomToAssemble #FreeSpeech #RightToProtest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/03/12/marco-rubio-mahmoud-khalil-deportation/

Syria’s interim gov’t, Kurdish-led forces sign landmark integration agreement https://www.byteseu.com/821215/ #BasharAlAssad #Conflicts #MarcoRubio #Syria #TopNews #World

Marco Rubio Finally Loses It at Elon Musk in Trump Cabinet Meeting

The two advisers got into a heated argument over DOGE-backed firings.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192493/marco-rubio-elon-musk-fight-donald-trump

"Secretary of State #MarcoRubio, alongside other miffed agency heads, laid into billionaire bureaucrat #ElonMusk during Thursday’s meeting of Donald Trump’s #Cabinet...

In the end, #Trump defended #Rubio"

#Musk #Coup #Corruption #DonaldTrump #GOP #Government #USPol #USPolitics #News #US #USA

OMG 😬

I would die of embarrassment but in the US they make you Secretary of State after a mistake like that.

#MarcoRubio #Bolivar #Venezuela #Germany

Cuba Sends #Doctors, the US Sends #Sanctions

The #UnitedStates calls #Cuba’s medical internationalism "human trafficking" — but it’s really an internationalist lifeline for the #GlobalSouth.

from #Jacobin
By #HelenYaffe
March 8, 2025

On February 25, #US secretary of state #MarcoRubio announced restrictions on visas for both government officials in Cuba and any others worldwide who are “complicit” with the island nation’s overseas #medical-assistance programs. A #USStateDepartment statement clarified that the sanction extends to “current and former” officials and the “immediate family of such persons.”

https://jacobin.com/2025/03/cuba-medical-programs-us-sanctions

#CubanMedicalInternationalism
#VivaCuba #LetCubaLive #CubaSi #EndTheBlockade #CubaSolidarity #EndTheEmbargo
#EndSanctionsAgainstCuba #OffTheList
#news #press #politics #healthcare #embargo
@cubainfo

#TheMarkOfTheBeast. He supports those who "... say they are jews but are not." https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Revelation%202%3A9 A synagogue of SATAN. https://www.biblegateway.com/verse/en/Revelation%203%3A9 #Xtianity as practiced in the US often approaches #satanism. This #Cuba-n gusano guano, #MarcoRubio, is a perfect example.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, wears a cross on his forehead to declare penitence for Jesus Christ.

Before doubling down on Trump’s promise to kill all Palestinians in Gaza.

#MarcoRubio #PerformativeChristians #ZionismInChristianity #US #FalseChristians

Live updates: What is going on in Israel, Lebanon, and Gaza? | Israel News https://www.byteseu.com/?p=803694 #Conflicts #DonaldTrump #EyalZamir #GazaHostages #GazaStrip #Hamas #HostageDeal #IDF #Iran #Israel #IsraelKatz #IsraelHamasWar #Lebanon #LiveUpdates #MarcoRubio #Syria

US state department designates Yemen’s Houthi group as foreign terrorist organization once again https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/04/yemen-houthis-terrorist-organization #MiddleEastandnorthAfrica #USforeignpolicy #Israel-Gazawar #MarcoRubio #USpolitics #Worldnews #Houthis #USnews #Yemen

Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio has reiterated the #Trump admin’s attitude toward #Zelensky, saying that #Ukraine’s president had disrupted efforts toward a peace process w/ #Russia by challenging #JDVance in the Oval Office on Friday. Zelensky “found every opportunity to try to ‘Ukraine-splain’ on every issue,” Rubio said. [a. Ridiculous terminology. b. Someone had to]

#geopolitics #UnitedStates #MafiaState #RevengePolitics #authoritarianism #ForeignPolicy #allies #NATO #Europe

But since joining the admin, #MarcoRubio has adopted #Trump’s [#Russia’s] talking points. “As a member of the Senate, Secretary #Rubio was somebody who stood up for American values, American principles,” #VanHollen said. “Now he’s simply taking his directions at the State Dept from #ElonMusk & essentially parroting the president’s position.”

#geopolitics #Ukraine #UnitedStates #MafiaState #allies #NATO #Europe #ForeignPolicy #RevengePolitics #authoritarianism

Sen Chris #VanHollen, #Democrat of MD, told FoxNews on Sunday that he regretted voting to confirm his fmr colleague #MarcoRubio to be Sec of #State. Van Hollen said #Rubio used to acknowledge that #Russia was the aggressor in the #war against #Ukraine & would never have accused #Zelensky of being a #dictator as #Trump has. But since joining the admin, Rubio has adopted Trump’s talking points.

#geopolitics #UnitedStates #MafiaState #allies #NATO #Europe #ForeignPolicy

Sen #ChrisMurphy also criticized Secretary of #State #MarcoRubio, his former #Senate colleague from Florida, for not opposing #Trump’s efforts to align #America with #Russia. “That’s been a great disappointment to many of his former colleagues in the Senate,” Murphy said of #Rubio.

#geopolitics #Ukraine #Russia #UnitedStates #MafiaState #allies #NATO #Europe #ForeignPolicy

Marco Rubio condemns Hamas’s ‘savagery’ for killing Bibas family – Israel News https://www.byteseu.com/?p=770021 #Conflicts #GazaHostages #Hamas #HostageDeal #Israel #IsraelHamasWar #MarcoRubio

Presidente emiratí reitera a Rubio su rechazo a desplazamiento de palestinos de Gaza

(AFP)- El presidente de Emiratos Árabes Unidos reiteró el miércoles al jefe de la diplomacia estadounidense, Marco Rubio, su rechazo a cualquier desplazamiento de palestinos, según la agencia de prensa oficial emiratí Wam. Marco Rubio realizó el miércoles una breve visita a este país del Golfo en el marco de su primera gira por Oriente […]

#Gaza #MarcoRubio #Mundo #Mundo

https://www.crhoy.com/mundo/presidente-emirati-reitera-a-rubio-su-rechazo-a-desplazamiento-de-palestinos-de-gaza/

#EU foreign policy head #KajaKallas

"Together w European Foreign Ministers, I spoke to #MarcoRubio after his talks in Riyadh.

#Russia will try to divide us. Let’s not walk into their traps.

By working together with the US, we can achieve just and lasting peace – on #Ukraine terms"

Egypt is developing a plan to rebuild Gaza, countering Trump’s call to depopulate the territory https://www.byteseu.com/755003/ #AbdelFattahElSissi #AbdulLatifAlQanou #BadrAbdelatty #BenjaminNetanyahu #DonaldTrump #Egypt #EgyptGovernment #Gaza #GazaStrip #GeneralNews #MarcoRubio #MiddleEast #PalestinianTerritoriesGovernment #Politics #Religion #SaudiArabia #WorldNews

Belarus frees an American and 2 other people in a bid to repair ties with Washington https://www.byteseu.com/754742/ #AlenaMaushuk #AlesBialiatski #AlexanderLukashenko #AndreyKuznechyk #Belarus #BelarusGovernment #DonaldTrump #Europe #GeneralNews #journalism #MarcoRubio #Politics #Riots #StephenCapus #SviatlanaTsikhanouskaya #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesGovernment #ValeryKarbalevich #washington #WorldNews

https://www.europesays.com/?p=1854047 Israel ‘Kills’ Woman In Lebanon, ‘Hits’ Hezbollah ‘Weapons Site’ As IDF Pullout Deadline Looms #Beirut #BeirutAirport #Conflicts #Israel #IsraelAirForce #IsraelPrimeMinister #IsraelVsIran #LebanonNews #LebanonPresident #LebanonPrimeMinister #MarcoRubio #Netanyahu #SaudiForeignMinistry #UsSecretaryOfState

https://www.europesays.com/1853458/ Iran will not hesitate to defend its nuclear programme, foreign ministry says – Middle East and Africa #DonaldTrump #ForeignAffairs #Iran #Israel #MarcoRubio #nuclear #US #war

[08:15] Israeli security cabinet to discuss new Gaza truce phase

Israel's security cabinet is set to discuss the next phase of the ceasefire in Gaza, after top US diplomat Marco Rubio and Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu presented a united front against Hamas and Iran.

https://www.rte.ie/news/2025/0217/1497165-israel-gaza/

#Israel #Gaza #US #MarcoRubio #Israeli #BenjaminNetanyahu #Hamas #Iran

🌍 ■ Netanyahu, ante la posibilidad de desplazar gazatíes: "No es limpieza étnica. En las guerras la gente se va" ■ Aumentan a dos los muertos por un ataque con dron del Ejército israelí contra el sur de la franja, en lo que sería una violación del a[…]
https://www.huffingtonpost.es/global/netanyahu-posibilidad-desplazar-gazaties-no-limpieza-etnica-guerras-gentebr.html?int=MASTODON_WORLD

#israel #crimenesdeguerra #hamas #benjaminnetanyahu #global #gaza #marcorubio #limpiezaetnica #eeuu

https://www.europesays.com/1852234/ ‘Hamas Must Be Eradicated’: U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio Meets Netanyahu; Backs Israel’s War in Gaza #Conflicts #Gaza #HamasIsraelWar #Israel #MarcoRubio #Netanyahu

US secretary of state Marco Rubio on Sunday met with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem at the start of a regional tour.
#Hamas #USsecretary #MarcoRubio
https://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/hamas-must-be-eradicated-us-secretary-of-state-marco-rubio-101739719026269.html