美国国务卿马尔科·卢比奥(John Kerry)表示，由于支持巴勒斯坦的激进主义，美国政府吊销了塔夫茨大学博士生鲁梅萨·厄兹图尔克(Rumeysa Maya)的签证。他补充说，自特朗普第二届政府开始以来，美国国务院可能已经吊销了300多份学生签证。
“目前可能超过300人。我们每天都这样做。卢比奥周四在圭亚那的一次新闻发布会上说:“每次我发现这些疯子中的一个，我就没收他们的签证。”。
厄兹图尔克，土耳其国民，被移民局逮捕因为她要去见她的朋友，并在周二斋月期间开斋。
她在ICE数据库中被列为“在押”，似乎被关押在路易斯安那.
卢比奥明明白白地说，厄兹图尔克的签证被政府吊销了。
“如果你申请了入境签证美国作为一名学生，你告诉我们，你来美国的原因不仅仅是因为你想写专栏文章，而是因为你想参与破坏大学、骚扰学生、占领建筑物、制造骚乱等活动，我们不会给你签证。
“如果你对我们撒谎，拿到签证，然后进入美国，用那个签证，参加那种活动，我们会吊销你的签证。一旦你失去了签证，你就不再合法地在美国了。我们有权利，就像世界上每个国家都有权利一样，将你驱逐出我们的国家。所以就是这么简单，”卢比奥说。
去年，厄兹图尔克是一个观点文章在塔夫茨日报，要求大学管理“承认巴勒斯坦种族灭绝”，并披露和撤资的公司与以色列有直接或间接的联系。
她在专栏中没有提到哈马斯，尽管国土安全部的一名发言人说她“从事支持哈马斯的活动，哈马斯是一个热衷于杀害美国人的外国恐怖组织。”
她的朋友，东北大学心理学系助理教授Reyyan Bilge告诉ABC新闻说:“她说话很温柔，她不想伤害你。”“她确保自己不会冒犯任何人，更不用说可能煽动暴力。我从来没听过她骂人，相信我，我们说的就是这种人。”
部长说，任何国家向任何打算在大学校园捣乱的个人发放签证都是“疯狂”和“愚蠢”的。
“如果你邀请我去你家，因为你说，我想去你家吃晚饭，我去了你家，我开始把泥放在你的沙发上，给你的厨房喷漆，我敢打赌你会把我赶出去，”他说。“嗯，如果你以游客身份来到美国，给我们制造麻烦，我们也会这么做。”
“我们不想要它。我们不希望它出现在我们的国家。回去在你的国家做，但你不会在我们的国家做，”他说。
厄兹图尔克被接近和拘留的马萨诸塞州萨默维尔市市长说，塔夫茨大学的博士生似乎是因为行使言论自由而被拘留的。
“看到一名具有合法身份的学生因行使言论自由而被拘留，我深感关切。市长Katjana Ballantyne在一份声明中说:“Rumeysa厄兹图尔克拥有第一修正案规定的言论自由权和正当程序权，这一点必须得到维护，就像所有移民被拘留者都拥有必须毫无例外地得到尊重的权利一样。”。
“我们的权利现在正受到各种各样的威胁，萨默维尔将利用法律和我们的声音来捍卫它们。我的政府最近与切尔西联合起诉联邦官员这样做。我们不能坐视不管，”市长说。
Tufts student's visa was revoked due to activism, Rubio says
The government revoked Tufts doctoral student Rumeysa Ozturk's visa due to her pro-Palestinian activism, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who added the State Department may have revoked more than 300 student visas since the beginning of the second Trump administration.
"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 visa," Rubio said during a press conference in Guyana on Thursday.
Ozturk, a Turkish national,was arrested by immigration authoritiesas she was headed to meet her friends and break her fast during Ramadan on Tuesday.In this image taken from security camera video, Rumeysa Ozturk, a 30-year-old doctoral student at Tufts University, is detained by Department of Homeland Security agents on a street in Sommerville, Mass., March 25, 2025.
She is listed in the ICE database as "in custody" and appears to be held at an ICE processing center inLouisiana.
Rubio plainly said Ozturk's visa was revoked by the government.
"If you apply for a visa to enter theUnited Statesand be a student, and you tell us the reason you are coming to the United States is not just because you want to write op-eds, but because you want to participate in movements that are involved in doing things like vandalizing universities, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating a ruckus -- we're not going to give you a visa," he said.
"If you lie to us and get a visa and then enter the United States, and with that visa, participate in that sort of activity, we're going to take away your visa. And once you've lost your visa, you're no longer legally in the United States. And we have a right, like every country in the world has a right, to remove you from our country. So it's just that simple," Rubio said.
Last year, Ozturk was the co-author of anopinion piecein the Tufts Daily newspaper, demanding the university administration "acknowledge the Palestinian genocide" and disclose and divest from companies with direct or indirect ties to Israel.
She made no mention of Hamas in the op-ed though a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said she "engaged in activities in support of Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that relishes the killing of Americans."
"She's softspoken, she doesn't want to hurt you when she's talking," her friend, Reyyan Bilge, an assistant teaching professor in Northeastern University's psychology department, told ABC News. "She makes sure that she doesn't offend anyone, let alone possibly incite violence. I've never heard her swearing, believe me, this is the kind of person we're talking about."
The secretary said it was "crazy" and "stupid" for any country to issue visas to any individual that intends to be disruptive on college campuses.
"If you invite me into your home because you say, I want to come to your house for dinner and I go to your house and I start putting mud on your couch and spray painting your kitchen, I bet you you're going to kick me out," he said. "Well, we're going to do the same thing if you come into the United States as a visitor and create a ruckus for us."
"We don't want it. We don't want it in our country. Go back and do it in your country, but you're not going to do it in our country," he said.
The mayor of Sommerville, Massachusetts, where Ozturk was approached and detained, said it appears the Tufts doctoral student was detained over the exercise of free speech.
"I am deeply concerned to see a student with legal status detained for what appears to be the exercise of free speech. Rumeysa Ozturk has a First Amendment right to free speech and a right to due process and that must be upheld, just as all immigration detainees have rights that must be respected without exception," Mayor Katjana Ballantyne said in a statement.
"Our rights are being threatened in a variety of ways right now and Somerville will make use of the law and our voices to defend them. My administration recently filed a joint lawsuit with Chelsea against federal officials to do just that. We cannot sit by idly," the mayor said.
