Foreign Minister Marco Rubio He defended a possible detention and deportation of the protest organization at former Colombia University, Mahmoud Khalil, where critics claim that it contradicts the first amendment.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday at Shannon Airport in Ireland, Rubio said the case “is not related to freedom of expression.” Rubio discussed the situation while refueling on its way to the G7 foreign ministers A meeting in Canada After negotiations on the Ukrainian war in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
A federal judge in Manhattan is expected to look later on Wednesday morning in arguments from Khalil lawyers who challenges the Trump administration's nullification of his green card.
“When you come to the United States as a visitor, which is the visa – this is what this person entered in this country, on the visitor visa – as a visitor, we can deprive you of this visa.” “When you tell us when you come forward,” Hello, I try to enter the United States with a student visa. I am a great supporter of Hamas, which is a fatal, barbaric group that kidnaps children, which rapes girls in adolescence, requires this hostage, and this allows them to die in captivity that intends to come to your country as a student and skiing on all types of hostile students, and anti -Semitic activities, and I intend to close your universities, “If you tell us all these things when you apply for your visa, we deny your visa.”
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio speaks to the media while refueling stops at Shannon Airport in Shannon, Ireland, on March 12, 2025. (Saul Lub/swimming pool/AFP via Getty Images)
Rubio said: “If you actually end up, as soon as you are in this country on such a visa, we will play it, and if you end up getting a green, not sexual card, but a green card as a result of that visa while you are here to do the activities, we will expel you. It is simple.” This relates to people who have no right to be in the United States to start. Nobody has the right to visa the student. No one has the right to the greed card by the way. ”
“So when you apply for a student visa or any visa to enter the United States, we have the right to deny it for almost any reason, but I think I can be Supporter Rubio added: “There are children in these schools that cannot go to the class. We will cancel it and expel you. ”
Federal immigration authorities arrested Khalil in his university -owned apartment in New York on Saturday, and he was transferred to a detention center in Louisiana. A student organizer during the anti -Israel protests last year, Khalil was born in Syria for Palestinian parents and granted a student visa to enter the United States to attend Colombia in 2022. He has since obtained a green card and married to an American citizen who is said to have eight months pregnant.
The American boycott judge, Jesse Foreman from the southern province in New York on Monday, prohibited Khalil's temporary deportation with the appearance of the case. His lawyers argue that his constitutional rights in freedom of expression and legal procedures due under the first and fifth amendments have been violated and submitted a proposal that defies the validity of Khalil's detention. They are paying to return Khalil to New York, while Trump administration attorneys say they intend to submit an application to refuse or transfer the case outside the southern province in New York by Wednesday night. They say that the Federal Manhattan Court is “an inappropriate place.”
A federal judge in Manhattan is expected to look later on Wednesday morning in arguments from Khalil lawyers who challenges the Trump administration's nullification of his green card.
The demonstrators are gathering in Foley Square to protest the arrest of Mahmoud Khalil on Monday 10 March 2025 in New York City. (Barry Williams/New York Daily News/Tribune news service via Getty Images)
The sources told Fox News that Khalil was being investigated as a possible threat to national security. Foreign Ministry officials say Khalil's activities in the United States will get “severe consequences for negative foreign policy on the United States.”
White House journalist Caroline Levitte said on Tuesday that the immigration and nationality law gives Rubio the right to cancel a green card or a visa from an individual who is considered “aggressive in favor of foreign policy and national security security in the United States of America” by arresting the territories that caused Khalil, “which caused the territories that caused the territories.
President Donald Trump, right, accompanied by a senior White House advisor, Tesla and CEO of Spacex, Elon Musk, speaks alongside Tesla model on the southern grass of the White House on March 11, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))
After riding in Tesla with Elon Musk at the White House, Trump took his promise that Khalil's detention would be the first among many associated Semitic campus disorders.
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“I think we must get them all out of the country. They are rioters. They are incitement. They do not like our country. We must get it out of hell,” Trump said on Tuesday. “I also heard his remarks. There was a lot of bad. I think we should take him out of hell from the country … I saw it, I saw the tapes specifically, I saw the tapes …> You can get it, well? You can get it, and you can have the rest of them. ”
“Let them go to school, let them learn,” Trump said.
Maria Baronic and Bill Milguin contributed to Fox News.
