The United States should revoke the most students visas in the coming days, said US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, on Friday (14), after the arrest and detention of student Mahmoud Khalil of Columbia University that the Trump government intends to deport its pro-Palestinian activism.
“In the coming days, they expect to see more revoked visas as we identify people whose entry should never have allowed,” Rubio told reporters after a meeting of G7 Foreign Ministers.
By arresting Khalil on Saturday, the Trump administration began to fulfill its campaign promise to deport foreign activists who participated in the wave of protests on US university campuses last year. The protests followed Israel’s military attack on Gaza following the October 2023 attack by the Hamas Militant Group, which controls Palestinian territory.
Khalil, a permanent legal resident in the United States, has been a prominent figure in Columbia’s Pro-Palestine student movement, perhaps the most prominent among the dozens of US universities where demonstrations occurred last year.
Trump labeled Khalil as a “foreign radical student pro-Hamas” on social networks and said his prison was the first “of many to come.”
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