Immigration officers arrested a Turkish student for supporting Hamas' terror costumes that attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
It appears to have been numbered in the days of Rumeysa Ozturk as a graduate student at Boston's Tuft University. The government has revoked her visa. In other words, she has to leave the country.
Ozteruk, who was arrested by immigrants and customs enforcement agents while she was about to meet a friend, says she crossed the line when she helped Hamas terrorists by “killing Americans.”
Secretary of State Marco Rubio explained that studying in the United States is a privilege, not a right, and that foreigners who “tear our campus” will lose their visas and be eliminated.
Arrest
A Muslim arrested in a sanctuary city in Somerville, Massachusetts, reported by Fox News' Bill Melgin. In December, Melgin pointed out that the city voted to “reaffirm the status of its sanctuary” in order to see the newly elected President Donald Trump.
Citing her lawyer, Reuters reported that when the “Mask and Plain Cross” ice agents arrested her, Oztark was “heading to meet up with friends to break Ramadan quickly.” The arrest comes a year after she and other students announced their daily OP-ED on Tufts. The article also stated that “reliable accusations against Israel include accounts of the deliberate hunger and indiscriminate massacre of Palestinian civilians and plausible genocide.”
“Rumesya Ozturk is a graduate student at the National & Tufts University of Turkey. I have recognized the privilege of being in this country on my visa,” wrote Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security.
A DHS + ICE investigation found that Oztalk was engaged in activities to support Hamas, a foreign terrorist organization that enjoys the murder of Americans.
A visa is a privilege, not a right.
Praise and support terrorists killing Americans is the basis for the end of visa issuance. This is common sense security.
As Reuters pointed out, the Trump administration is tracking foreign students sympathize with terrorist groups.
“Mahmoud Halil, a Columbia University graduate and legal permanent resident, was arrested as well,” Reuters observed, and Ice wants to detain a Korean attending Columbia University. “He accused Trump of trying to detain him without evidence and that he is in support of Hamas. Halil has denied that,” Reuters reported.
A Lebanese doctor and assistant professor at Brown University in Rhode Island was denied re-entry into the United States this month and was deported to Lebanon after the Trump administration alleged her phone included “sympathetic” photos to Hezbollah. Dr. Rasha Alawieh said she does not support extremist groups but she respected the leader who was murdered for her religion.
Reuters said the Trump administration has “targeted students” at Cornell, Georgetown University and the University of Alabama.
As New American Veronica Kirilenko reported on Halil, authorities “denounced him for 'anti-Semitic' activities. This includes the term “Under Trump's new executive order, it involves organizing protests critical of Israeli military actions.”
True socially warned Trump:
This is the first arrest of many people in the future. We know that Columbia and other universities have more students at other universities that engage in terrorist, anti-Semitism, and anti-American activities. The Trump administration will not tolerate it. Most are paid agitators, not students.
In 2024, pro-Palestinian “protesters” took over Hamilton Hall in Colombia. New York City police arrested them. Most were not students, X's report said.
Rubio explains
Speaking to the reporter, Rubio explained that studying in the United States as a foreigner is not “right” but a privilege.
“We have revoked her visa…and here it is… Let me become abundantly clear,” Rubio began:
If you say that you want to join the US and apply for a visa to become a student and come to the US, not just because you want to write OP-EDS, but also because you want to take part in moves like destroying the university, harassing students, taking over buildings, creating runaways, we won't give you Visa.
And if you “lied to us” to get a visa and do those things, he warned, the visa would be revoked. This means, “You're not legally in the United States anymore.” This means that previous visa holders must either depart or be deported.
“We gave you a visa to come and study and got your degree. We're not going to be a social activist who tears our university campus,” he continued.
And if we give you a visa and then you decide to do it, we're going to take it away. …It's crazy to come to your campus and invite students to your country that makes it unstable. We're not going to have it. So we will cancel your visa and once your visa is revoked, you will be illegally in the country and you must leave.
He said every country has the right to decide who will enter.
Rubio likened the situation to inviting someone to their home:
You invite me to your house… I'll kick you out once I start to put mud on your couch and paint your kitchen. Well, if you come to the US as a visitor and make a fuss for us, we're going to do the same. We don't want that. We don't want that in our country. Go back and do it in your country. But you are not going to do that in our country.
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