After the recent arrest of a foreign doctor at a US university, Foreign Minister Marco Rubio has given a sharp warning to all students with a visa. Anyone who has entered the USA with a so-called F-1 visa for studying and increment will be withdrawn from the visa. “And if you have lost your visa, you are no longer legal in the United States.”
Rubio reacted to the case of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University near Boston in the state of Massachusett, which had been stopped and arrested on the open street by officials of the Ministry of Homeland in dark civil clothing. The disturbing images from a surveillance camera from the arrest had shocked the university.
The trigger was an article in student newspaper
Die Doctoral student was a central figure in the anti-Israeli campus protests. She was a co-author of an article in a student newspaper from 2024, where the university was asked to recognize that there were clear indications of a genocide of Palestinians. At the same time, the university was called not to invest in companies with connections to Israel. The “Boston Globe” reports that acquaintances had assured the doctoral student that she was not a leader. Your professors are shocked by the arrest. According to the “Boston Globe”, thousands of people demonstrated against the arrest.
A district court had also ordered that the young woman should not be brought from Massachusetts. According to the authorities, however, it has now been in A 2500 kilometer -removed prison of the immigration authority ICE in the state of Louisiana.
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Chalil caused great sensation
In Louisiana, the Palestinian student Machmud Chalil is also said to be detained. His case had previously caused the greatest sensation. According to its lawyer, the graduate of the New York Columbia University has a GreenCard and thus an unlimited residence permit in the USA and is married to an American. The US government wants to deport him and accuses him of Campus leaflets with Hamas logo.
An Indian was arrested at the Georgetown University in the capital Washington. A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Homeland Protection accused him of spreading Islamist Hamas and anti -Semitism on the Platform X.