Rubio says US to revoke more student visas of anti-Israel activists in coming days

Jacob Magid is The Times of Israel's US bureau chief

The Trump administration will announce new visa revocations in the coming days for pro-Palestinian activists who have taken part in anti-Israel campus demonstrations, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says.

“In the days to come, you should expect more visas will be revoked as we identify people who we should never have allowed in because they lied to us when they said they were coming here to be students,” Rubio tells reporters during a press conference during a G7 summit in Canada.

“They didn’t say they were coming here to occupy university buildings and vandalize them and tear them apart and hold campuses hostage. If they had told us that we would never have given them a student visa. Now that they’ve done it, we will revoke those visas.”

“Every time we have a chance to revoke them, we will, because it’s not in the national interest of the United States for them to be here,” Rubio adds.

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