NBC News - The State Department has revoked 300 or more student visas, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, as the White House increasingly targets foreign-born students whose main transgression seems to be activism.
Around the country, scholars have been picked up and held in detention centers, sometimes far from their homes with little warning and often with few details about why they are being detained. The State Department has used an immigration provision that dates to the Cold War to justify some of the detentions. Federal officials can also revoke a student visa if they deem the student a threat.
"It might be more than 300 at this point," Rubio said of the number of students whose visas have been revoked. "We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visas."
This week, Tufts University doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish national who was in the country with a valid student visa was pulled off the street. Ozturk co-authored an opinion essay in the Tufts student newspaper last year criticizing the university for how it responded to student demands.
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